◄ Luke 21:14 ►
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Good News Translation
Make up your minds ahead of time not to worry about how you will defend yourselves,

New Revised Standard Version
So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance;

Contemporary English Version
Don't worry about what you will say to defend yourselves.

New American Bible
Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lay it up therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lay it up therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer:

Luke 12:11,12 And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say. . . .

Matthew 10:19,20 But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak: . . .

Mark 13:11 And when they shall lead you and deliver you up, be not thoughtful beforehand what you shall speak: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

Context
Witnessing to All Nations
…13And it shall happen unto you for a testimony. 14Lay it up therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before how you shall answer: 15For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:12
Go therefore, and I will be in thy mouth; and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.

Luke 12:11
And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say.

Luke 21:13
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