Luke 12:5

"I will warn you whom you ought to fear. Fear him who, after he was after he has killed, has power to throw you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

In Context

4"But I say to you who are my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

6"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? Yet not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God!

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Cross References

Matthew 5:22but I say to you that he who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to condemnation by the court; and he who says to his brother’Raca,’ shall be liable to condemnation by the Sanhedrin, while he who curses his brother shall be liable to the Gehenna of Fire.

Matthew 25:41"Then he will say to those also at his left hand. ‘Depart from me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;

Mark 13:23Be on your guard! I have told you it all beforehand.

Hebrews 10:31IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

Matthew Henry on Luke 12:2-13

Christ's Charge to His Apostles. 1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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