Matthew 10:36

Simplified Cowboy Version

a cowboy's worst enemies will be the folks on his own spread.'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and a man’s enemies will be

King James Version (1611)
And a mans foes shalbe they of his owne houshold.

King James Version
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

English Standard Version
And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

New American Standard Bible
and A PERSON'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.

New Century Version
A person's enemies will be members of his own family.' Micah 7:6

Amplified Bible
and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS [own] HOUSEHOLD [when one believes and another does not].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And a mans enemies shall be they of his owne housholde.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.

Legacy Standard Bible
and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.

Berean Standard Bible
A man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'

Contemporary English Version
Your worst enemies will be in your own family.

Complete Jewish Bible
a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, so that a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.

Darby Translation
and they of his household [shall be] a man's enemies.

Easy-to-Read Version
Even members of your own family will be your enemies.'

George Lamsa Translation
And a man''s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Good News Translation
your worst enemies will be the members of your own family.

Lexham English Bible
And the enemies of a man will be the members of his household.

Literal Translation
"Ones hostile to the man shall be those of his own house." Mic. 7:6

American Standard Version
and a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

Bible in Basic English
And a man will be hated by those of his house.

Hebrew Names Version
A man's foes will be those of his own household.

International Standard Version
A person's enemies will be members of his own family.'Micah 7:6">[fn]Psalm 41:9; 55:13; Micah 7:6; John 13:18;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and the adversaries of a man (to be) his own house-sons.

Murdock Translation
And a man's foes will be the members of his household.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And a mans foes [shalbe] they of his owne householde.

English Revised Version
and a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

World English Bible
A man's foes will be those of his own household.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the foes of a man shall be they of his own houshold.

Weymouth's New Testament
and a man's own family will be his foes.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the enemyes of a man ben `thei, that ben homeli with him.

Update Bible Version
and a man's foes [shall be] those of his own household.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a man's foes [will be] they of his own household.

New English Translation
and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.

New King James Version
and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.' Micah 7:6">[fn]

New Living Translation
Your enemies will be right in your own household!'

New Life Bible
A man will be hated by his own family.

New Revised Standard
and one's foes will be members of one's own household.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, a man foes, are, they of his own house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.

Revised Standard Version
and a man's foes will be those of his own household.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And a mannes fooes shalbe they of hys owne housholde.

Young's Literal Translation
and the enemies of a man are those of his household.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and a mans foes shalbe they of his owne housholde.

Mace New Testament (1729)
even a man's own domestics shall prove his foes.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶I'm sendin' y'all out like steaks to hungry coyotes. Y'all will need to be savvy as horse traders, but innocent as the day you were born. ¹⁷"Watch your backs with men. They will hand you over to the local sheriffs and beat you within an inch of your life, right there in the churches. ¹⁸Because of me, you will be taken before governors, presidents, and later, even to those who aren't Jews, so that you can tell them about who I am. ¹⁹Don't fret about what you're supposed to say when they arrest you though. When the time comes, I'll give you the words you'll need. ²⁰It won't be you who'll be talkin' at 'em, it'll be the Spirit of God speakin' through you. ²¹"Brothers are gonna double-cross each other, and a father will do the same to his kid. Children will buck their parents and turn on 'em, and have 'em put to death. ²²Everyone will hate you because of me, but if you stay in the saddle and ride with me, you will be saved in the end. ²³When they pester, plague, pick on, and persecute you, just saddle up and ride away to somewhere else. I'm tellin' you honest, you won't even get through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. ²⁴"A cowhand isn't over the trail boss and a horse isn't above its rider. ²⁵It's fine for the cowhand to be like the trail boss. If the trail boss has been called Satan, then his crew will be called that more!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 3:15, Genesis 4:8-10, Genesis 37:17-28, 1 Samuel 17:28, 2 Samuel 16:11, Job 19:13-19, Psalms 41:9, Psalms 55:13, Jeremiah 12:6, Jeremiah 20:10, Micah 7:6, John 13:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:1 - Miriam 2 Samuel 3:1 - between 1 Kings 2:20 - Ask on Psalms 27:10 - When Psalms 69:8 - and an alien Psalms 120:6 - soul Song of Solomon 1:6 - my mother's Matthew 24:10 - betray John 13:18 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. His children, and his servants, such that he has either begotten and brought up, or are daily fed at his table, and maintained by him. This, with the former instances, are borrowed from Micah 7:6 and the times of the Gospel are set forth in the same dismal and black characters, as those in which the prophet lived; and much such a description do the Jews themselves give, of the times of their expected Messiah; which agreeing in words, as well as things, I cannot forbear transcribing.

"The government shall be turned to heresy (Sadducism), and there will be no reproof; the synagogue shall become a brothel house, Galilee shall be destroyed, and Gablan shall be laid waste, and the men of the border shall wander from city to city, and shall obtain no mercy; the wisdom of the Scribes shall stink, and they that fear to sin shall be despised, and truth shall fail; young men shall turn pale, or put to shame, the faces of old men, and old men shall stand before young men; the "son" shall deal basely "with his father, the daughter shall rise up against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and the enemies of a man shall be they of his own house": the face of that generation shall be as the face of a dog, and the son shall not reverence his father o.''

All which characters, how exactly they agree with the generation in which Christ lived, is easy to observe.

o Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 15. T. Bab. Sanhedrim, fol. 97. 1. Zohar in Num. fol. 102. 3. & Raya Mehimna in ib. in Lev. fol. 28. 2. Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 11. 4. Derech Eretz Zuta, fol. 19. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Think not that I am come ... - This is taken from Micah 7:6. Christ did not here mean to say that the object of his coming was to produce discord and contention, for he was the Prince of Peace, Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 11:6; Luke 2:14; but he means to say that such would be one of the effects of his coming. One part of a family that was opposed to Him would set themselves against those who believed in him. The wickedness of men, and not the religion of the gospel, is the cause of this hostility. It is unnecessary to say that no prophecy has been more strikingly fulfilled; and it will continue to be fulfilled until all unite in obeying his commandments. Then his religion will produce universal peace. Compare the notes at Matthew 10:21.

But a sword - The sword is an instrument of death, and to send a sword is the same as to produce hostility and war.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. A man's foes shall be they of his own household. — Our Lord refers here to their own traditions. So Sota, fol. 49. "A little before the coming of the Messiah, the son shall insult the father, the daughter rebel against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and each man shall have his own household fur his enemies." Again, in Sanhedrin, fol. 97, it is said: "In the age in which the Messiah shall come, the young men shall turn the elders into ridicule; the elders shall rise up against the youth, the daughter against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and the man of that age shall be excessively impudent; nor shall the son reverence his father." These are most remarkable sayings, and, by them, our Lord shows them that he was the Messiah, for all these things literally took place shortly after their final rejection of Christ. See the terrible account, given by Josephus, relative to the desolations of those times. Through the just judgment of God, they who rejected the Lord that bought them became abandoned to every species of iniquity; they rejected the salvation of God, and fell into the condemnation of the devil.

Father Quesnel's note on this place is worthy of deep attention. "The father (says he) is the enemy of his son, when, through a bad education, an irregular love, and a cruel indulgence, he leaves him to take a wrong bias, instructs him not in his duty, and fills his mind with ambitious views. The son is the father's enemy, when he is the occasion of his doing injustice, in order to heap up an estate for him, and to make his fortune. The mother is the daughter's enemy, when she instructs her to please the world, breeds her up in excess and vanity, and suffers any thing scandalous or unseemly in her dress. The daughter is the mother's enemy, when she becomes her idol, when she engages her to comply with her own irregular inclinations, and to permit her to frequent balls and plays. The master is the enemy of his servant, and the servant that of his master, when the one takes no care of the other's salvation, and the latter is subservient to his master's passions."