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Luke 4:7

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambition;   Demons;   Falsehood;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Satan;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Victory;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon;   Destroy, Destruction;   King, Christ as;   Temptation, Test;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Worship of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Holy Spirit;   Luke, Gospel of;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus Christ;   Messiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Border ;   Force;   Guide;   Honour (2);   Influence;   Logia;   Manliness;   Popularity;   Pride (2);   Selfishness;   Silence;   Struggles of Soul;   Temptation;   Temptation ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Antichrist;   Luke, the Gospel of;   Temptation of Christ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If you, then, will worship me, all will be yours.”
King James Version (1611)
If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shalbe thine.
King James Version
If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
English Standard Version
If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours."
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours."
New Century Version
If you worship me, then it will all be yours."
Amplified Bible
"Therefore if You worship before me, it will all be Yours."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours."
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours."
Berean Standard Bible
So if You worship me, it will all be Yours."
Contemporary English Version
Just worship me, and you can have it all."
Complete Jewish Bible
So if you will worship me, it will all be yours."
Darby Translation
If therefore *thou* wilt do homage before me, all [of it] shall be thine.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will give it all to you, if you will only worship me."
Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou therefore wilt worship mee, they shalbe all thine.
George Lamsa Translation
If therefore you worship me, it will all be yours.
Good News Translation
All this will be yours, then, if you worship me."
Lexham English Bible
So if you will worship before me, all this will be yours."
Literal Translation
Then if You worship before me, all will be Yours.
American Standard Version
If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine.
Bible in Basic English
If then you will give worship to me, it will all be yours.
Hebrew Names Version
If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
International Standard Version
So if you will worship me, all this will be yours."
Etheridge Translation
If therefore thou wilt worship before me, thine shall be all.
Murdock Translation
if therefore thou wilt worship before me, the whole shall be thine.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou therfore wilt fall downe before me, & worship me, they shalbe all thine.
English Revised Version
If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine.
World English Bible
If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Weymouth's New Testament
If therefore you do homage to me, it shall all be yours.'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
therfor if thou falle doun, and worschipe bifore me, alle thingis schulen be thine.
Update Bible Version
If you therefore will worship before me, it shall all be yours.
Webster's Bible Translation
If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
New English Translation
So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours."
New King James Version
Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours."
New Living Translation
I will give it all to you if you will worship me."
New Life Bible
If You will worship me, all this will be Yours."
New Revised Standard
If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou, therefore, if thou wilt worship before me, it shall all, be thine.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine.
Revised Standard Version
If you, then, will worship me, it shall all be yours."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf thou therfore wilt worshippe me they shalbe all thyne.
Young's Literal Translation
thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me -- all shall be thine.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou now wilt worshippe me, they shal all be thine.
Mace New Testament (1729)
if therefore you will worship me, they shall be all your own.
Simplified Cowboy Version
All you have to do is take a knee before me and kiss my boot."

Contextual Overview

1Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wild. For forty wilderness days and nights he was tested by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when the time was up he was hungry. 3 The Devil, playing on his hunger, gave the first test: "Since you're God's Son, command this stone to turn into a loaf of bread." 4 Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: "It takes more than bread to really live." 5For the second test he led him up and spread out all the kingdoms of the earth on display at once. Then the Devil said, "They're yours in all their splendor to serve your pleasure. I'm in charge of them all and can turn them over to whomever I wish. Worship me and they're yours, the whole works." 8 Jesus refused, again backing his refusal with Deuteronomy: "Worship the Lord your God and only the Lord your God. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness." 9For the third test the Devil took him to Jerusalem and put him on top of the Temple. He said, "If you are God's Son, jump. It's written, isn't it, that ‘he has placed you in the care of angels to protect you; they will catch you; you won't so much as stub your toe on a stone'?" 12 "Yes," said Jesus, "and it's also written, ‘Don't you dare tempt the Lord your God.'" 13 That completed the testing. The Devil retreated temporarily, lying in wait for another opportunity.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

worship me: or, fall down before me, Luke 8:28, Luke 17:16, Psalms 72:11, Isaiah 45:14, Isaiah 46:6, Matthew 2:11, Revelation 4:10, Revelation 5:8, Revelation 22:8

Reciprocal: Daniel 3:15 - ye fall Revelation 22:9 - worship God

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."
Genesis 4:6
God spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."
Genesis 4:8
Cain had words with his brother. They were out in the field; Cain came at Abel his brother and killed him.
Genesis 4:9
God said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "How should I know? Am I his babysitter?"
Genesis 4:10
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."
Genesis 4:13
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 19:21
"All right, Lot. If you insist. I'll let you have your way. And I won't stamp out the town you've spotted. But hurry up. Run for it! I can't do anything until you get there." That's why the town was called Zoar, that is, Smalltown.
Numbers 32:23
"But if you don't do what you say, you will be sinning against God ; you can be sure that your sin will track you down. So, go ahead. Build towns for your families and corrals for your livestock. Do what you said you'd do."
2 Kings 8:28
He joined Joram son of Ahab king of Israel in a war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. The archers wounded Joram. Joram pulled back to Jezreel to convalesce from the injuries he had received in the fight with Hazael. Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah paid a visit to Joram son of Ahab on his sickbed in Jezreel.
Proverbs 18:5
It's not right to go easy on the guilty, or come down hard on the innocent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou therefore wilt worship me,.... Or "before me"; that is, fall down before him, and give him divine worship and homage. A wide difference there is between a good angel and a fallen angel; a good angel will not suffer himself to be worshipped by men, but directs to the worship of God only, Revelation 19:10 but a fallen angel not only seeks to be worshipped by men, but by the Son of God himself, even by him whom all the holy angels worship, Hebrews 1:6 This was what Satan at first aspired after, and by which he fell: he affected deity, and sought to have divine worship given him; and in this sin he still persisted, and grew worse and worse, more daring and insolent, desiring worship of him who is God over all, blessed for ever.

All shall be thine: he promises to give him a title to all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, on condition of homage done him, by which he should hold the tenure of them under him; these being delivered up solely to him, by the author of them; and he having them in his power, to dispose of them at pleasure. O horrid impudence, arrogance, and insolence!

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1-11.

Luke 4:2

Being forty days tempted - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which are recorded by Matthew and Luke did not take place until the forty days were finished. See Matthew 4:2-3.

He did eat nothing - He was sustained by the power of God during this season of extraordinary fasting.

Luke 4:13

Departed for a season - For a time. From this it appears that our Saviour was “afterward” subjected to temptations by Satan, but no “particular” temptations are recorded after this. From John 14:30, it seems that the devil tried or tempted him in the agony in Gethsemane. Compare the notes at Hebrews 12:4. It is more than probable, also, that Satan did much to excite the Pharisees and Sadducees to endeavor to “entangle him,” and the priests and rulers to oppose him; yet out of all his temptations God delivered him; and so he will make a way to escape for “all” that are tempted, and will not suffer them to be tempted above that which they are able to bear, 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Luke 4:14

In the power of the Spirit - By the “influence” or direction of the Spirit.

A fame - A report. See Matthew 4:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 4:7. If thou - wilt worship me — This temptation is the last in order, as related by Matthew; and it is not reasonable to suppose that any other succeeded to it. Luke has here told the particulars, but not in the order in which they took place. See every circumstance of this temptation considered and explained in the notes on Matthew 4:1-11.


 
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