Luke 10:15
Good News Translation
And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell!"

New Revised Standard Version
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades.

Contemporary English Version
People of Capernaum, do you think you will be honored in heaven? Well, you will go down to hell!

New American Bible
And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell.

Capernaum.

Luke 7:1,2 And when he had finished all his words in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capharnaum. . . .

Matthew 4:13 And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim;

which.

Genesis 11:4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

Deuteronomy 1:28 Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.

Isaiah 14:13-15 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. . . .

Jeremiah 51:53 If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:12-14 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. . . .

Amos 9:2,3 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered. . . .

Obadiah 1:4 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Matthew 11:23 And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

thrust.

Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.

Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

Isaiah 14:15 But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.

Ezekiel 26:20 And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth, as places desolate of old, with them that are brought down into the pit, that thou be not inhabited: and when I shall give glory in the land of the living,

Ezekiel 31:18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 32:18,20,27 Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. . . .

Matthew 10:28 And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

Context
Woe to the Unrepentant
14But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell. 16He that heareth you heareth me: and he that despiseth you despiseth me: and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:13
And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.

Isaiah 14:15
But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.

Matthew 4:13
And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim;

Matthew 11:23
And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

Luke 10:14
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