Luke 10:6
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New International Version (©2011)
If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
If those who live there are peaceful, the blessing will stand; if they are not, the blessing will return to you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting of peace will remain with him. But if that's not the case, your greeting will come back to you.

NET Bible (©2006)
And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“And if a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest upon it, but if not, it will return to you.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting will be accepted. But if that's not the case, your greeting will be rejected.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

American King James Version
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest on it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

American Standard Version
And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again.

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; but if not it shall turn to you again.

English Revised Version
And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

Weymouth New Testament
And if there is a lover of peace there, your peace shall rest upon it; otherwise come back upon you.

World English Bible
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Young's Literal Translation
and if indeed there may be there the son of peace, rest on it shall your peace; and if not so, upon you it shall turn back.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-16 Christ sent the seventy disciples, two and two, that they might strengthen and encourage one another. The ministry of the gospel calls men to receive Christ as a Prince and a Saviour; and he will surely come in the power of his Spirit to all places whither he sends his faithful servants. But the doom of those who receive the grace of God in vain, will be very fearful Those who despise the faithful ministers of Christ, who think meanly of them, and look scornfully upon them, will be reckoned as despisers of God and Christ.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - The son of peace. An Aramaic (Hebrew) expression. Although the language here is pure and fairly classical Greek, yet the presence of such expressions as this shows that the basis of this part of St. Luke's narrative was probably an Aramaic document.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if the son of peace be there,.... If there be any elect person or persons in the house, whom God has chosen to partake of peace by the blood of Christ, and the benefits arising from it; and of a conscience peace in their souls, upon the best foundation; and of eternal peace in the world to come, though yet in a state of nature; and which may be known by this sign;

your peace shall rest upon it: the salutation, or wish of peace, shall be well taken, and gratefully received; and upon this you will be kindly invited into the house, and used well by, those of the family;

if not, it shall turn to you again: if there are no sons of peace, no elect persons there, your salutation, or wish of peace and prosperity to the family, will be despised and rejected, and will return to you without any good effect upon them.

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Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
…5And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. 6And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest on it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. …

Psalm 35:13 Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
Luke 10:5 "When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.'
Luke 10:7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.