Luke 10:12

12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

Luke 10:12 in Other Translations

12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

12 I assure you, even wicked Sodom will be better off than such a town on judgment day.

12 Sodom will have it better on Judgment Day than the town that rejects you.

12 I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

12 I can guarantee that judgment day will be easier for Sodom than for that city.

12 I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

12 "I tell you this. On judgment day it will be easier for Sodom than for that town.

Luke 10:12 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 10:12

But I say unto you
The same that he said to the twelve apostles, when he sent them out, ( Matthew 10:15 ) ,

that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for
that city.
By "that day" is meant, the famous day to come, the last day; the day of judgment, as it is expressed in Matthew; and so the Ethiopic version reads here, "it shall be better in the day of judgment". Sodom was a very wicked city, and was destroyed by fire from heaven for its iniquity, and its inhabitants suffer the vengeance of eternal fire: and there was also Gomorrha, a neighbouring city, guilty of the same crimes, and shared the same fate; and which is mentioned along with Sodom in Matthew; and is here read in the Persic version. And the sense of the whole is, that though the iniquities of Sodom and Gomorrha were very great, and their punishment very exemplary; yet, as there will be degrees of torment in hell, the case of such a city, which has been favoured with the Gospel, and has despised and rejected it, will be much worse than the case of those cities, which were devoured by fire from heaven; and than that of the inhabitants of them in the future judgment, and to all eternity; (See Gill on Matthew 10:15).

Luke 10:12 In-Context

10 But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,

11 ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’

12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

Cross References

• 1. S Matthew 10:15
• 2. Matthew 11:24