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Selected Verse: Luke 12:4 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Lu 12:4	King James	And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
I say, &c.--You will say, That may cost us our life. Be it so; but, "My friends, there their power ends." He calls them "my friends" here, not in any loose sense, but, as we think, from the feeling He then had that in this "killing of the body" He and they were going to be affectingly one with each other.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

I say, &c.--You will say, That may cost us our life. Be it so; but, "My friends, there their power ends." He calls them "my friends" here, not in any loose sense, but, as we think, from the feeling He then had that in this "killing of the body" He and they were going to be affectingly one with each other.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Unto you, my friends (ὑμῖν τοῖς φίλοις μου) See on Pharisees and lawyers, Luk 11:43, Luk 11:46. Not an address, "O my friends," but, "unto you, the friends of me." Be not afraid of (μὴ φοβηθῆτε ἀπὸ) Lit., "fear not from;" i.e., from the hands of.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

Unto you, my friends (ὑμῖν τοῖς φίλοις μου)

See on Pharisees and lawyers, Luk 11:43, Luk 11:46. Not an address, "O my friends," but, "unto you, the friends of me."

Be not afraid of (μὴ φοβηθῆτε ἀπὸ)

Lit., "fear not from;" i.e., from the hands of.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
But I say to you, Fear not - Let not the fear of man make you act the hypocrite, or conceal any thing which I have commissioned you to publish.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

But I say to you, Fear not - Let not the fear of man make you act the hypocrite, or conceal any thing which I have commissioned you to publish.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Kill the body - See on Mat 10:28 (note).

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Kill the body - See on Mat 10:28 (note).

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