NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 55

Luke 12:55

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When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

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Luke 12:52–58

52

For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

54

He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.

55
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When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

56

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

57

“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

58

For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

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