Luke 10:6
Good News Translation
If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace.

New Revised Standard Version
And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you.

Contemporary English Version
If the people living there are peace-loving, your prayer for peace will bless them. But if they are not peace-loving, your prayer will return to you.

New American Bible
If a peaceful person lives there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall return to you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall return to you.

the Son.

1 Samuel 25:17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

Isaiah 9:6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 2:2,3 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: . . .

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.

1 Peter 1:14 As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,

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James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

it shall.

Psalm 35:13 But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

2 Corinthians 2:15,16 For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish. . . .

Context
Jesus Sends Out the Disciples
5Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house. 6And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall return to you. 7And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.…
Cross References
Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

Luke 10:5
Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house.

Luke 10:7
And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house.

Luke 10:5
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