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Luke 12:49
`Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?
Luke 12:49 · Young's Literal Translation
Luke 12:49 in other translations
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
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In context
46 the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
47 `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
48 and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.
49 `Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?
50 but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!
51 `Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;
52 for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided--three against two, and two against three;
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