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Selected Verse: Luke 12:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 12:4 |
Strong Concordance |
And [1161] I say [3004] unto you [5213] my [3450] friends [5384], Be [5399] not [3361] afraid [5399] of them [575] that kill [615] the body [4983], and [2532] after [3326] that [5023] have [2192] no [3361] [5100] more [4055] that they can do [4160]. |
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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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| 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. |
| 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). |
46 And [1161] he said [2036], Woe [3759] unto you [5213] also [2532], ye lawyers [3544]! for [3754] ye lade [5412] men [444] with burdens [5413] grievous to be borne [1419], and [2532] ye yourselves [846] touch [4379] not [3756] the burdens [5413] with one [1520] of your [5216] fingers [1147].
43 Woe [3759] unto you [5213], Pharisees [5330]! for [3754] ye love [25] the uppermost seats [4410] in [1722] the synagogues [4864], and [2532] greetings [783] in [1722] the markets [58].
28 And [2532] fear [5399] [575] not [3361] them which [3588] kill [615] the body [4983], but [1161] are [1410] not [3361] able [1410] to kill [615] the soul [5590]: but [1161] rather [3123] fear [5399] him which [3588] is able [1410] to destroy [622] both [2532] soul [5590] and [2532] body [4983] in [1722] hell [1067].