Matthew 10:15

Matthew 10:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
• New International Version (NIV)Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

Context of Matthew 10:15

13If it is a family that listens to you, allow your greeting to stand. But if it is not receptive, take back your greeting. 14If anyone doesn’t welcome you or listen to what you say, leave that house or city, and shake its dust off your feet. I can guarantee this truth: Judgment day will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city. 16“I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as snakes but as innocent as doves. 17Watch out for people who will hand you over to the Jewish courts and whip you in their synagogues.

Matthew 10:15 word by word

ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν· ἀνεκτότερον ἔσται γῇ Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρων ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κρίσεως ἢ τῇ πόλει ἐκείνῃ.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Verilyἀμήνamēn · amenG281
• I sayλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• unto youσύsu · youG4771
• It shall beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• more tolerableἀνεκτόςanektoteros · bearableG414
• for the landγῆgē · earth: countryG1093
• of SodomΣόδομαSodoma · SodomG4670
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• GomorrhaΓόμορραGomorrha · GomorrahG1116
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• the dayἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• of judgmentκρίσιςkrisis · judgmentG2920
• thanἤē · orG2228
• forὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• forπόλιςpolis · cityG4172
• thatἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565

Cross-references for Matthew 10:15

• Matthew 5:18I can guarantee this truth: Until the earth and the heavens disappear, neither a period nor a comma will disappear from the Scriptures before everything has come true.
• Matthew 24:34“I can guarantee this truth: This generation will not disappear until all these things take place.
• Matthew 11:22I can guarantee that judgment day will be better for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
• Ezekiel 16:48As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
• Mark 6:11Wherever people don’t welcome you or listen to you, leave and shake the dust from your feet as a warning to them.”
• Luke 10:11‘We are wiping your city’s dust from our feet in protest against you! But realize that God’s kingdom is near you!’
• John 15:22If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
• Matthew 12:36“I can guarantee that on judgment day people will have to give an account of every careless word they say.
• 2 Peter 2:9Since the Lord did all this, he knows how to rescue godly people when they are tested. He also knows how to hold immoral people for punishment on the day of judgment.
• 2 Peter 3:7By God’s word, the present heaven and earth are designated to be burned. They are being kept until the day ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.
• 1 John 4:17God’s love has reached its goal in us. So we look ahead with confidence to the day of judgment. While we are in this world, we are exactly like him ⌞with regard to love⌟.

Commentaries on Matthew 10:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15In the day of judgment - Or, punishment, - . Perhaps not meaning the day of general judgment, nor the day of the destruction of the Jewish state by the Romans; but a day in which God should send punishment on that particular city, or on that person, for their crimes. So the day of judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, was the time in which the Lord destroyed them by fire and brimstone, from the Lord out of heaven. If men are thus treated for not receiving the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 See also Mark 6:8-11, and Luke 9:3-5. In both these places the substance of this account is given, though not so particularly as in Matthew. The general subject is the instructions given to the apostles. Matthew 10:9 Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass - This prohibition of gold, silver, and brass is designed to prevent their providing money for their journey. Pieces of money of “small value” were made of brass. In your purses…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-15Verses 5-15 The Gentiles must not have the gospel brought them, till the Jews have refused it. This restraint on the apostles was only in their first mission. Wherever they went they must proclaim, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. They preached, to establish the faith; the kingdom, to animate the hope; of heaven, to inspire the love of heavenly things, and the contempt of earthly; which is at hand, that men may prepare for it without delay. Christ gave…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of their evil actions (Genesis 18:16–19:29). With the fuller revelation through Jesus Christ, a town that rejected the disciples' message would receive a more severe judgment. that town: A whole village or city is responsible when most people reject the message (see Acts 13:45–47, 50–51; 14:1–7). But God will save individuals who trust in him (for example, Lot; see Genesis 19:1–29; 2 Peter 2:6–9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable--more bearable. for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city--Those Cities of the Plain, which were given to the flames for their loathsome impurities, shall be treated as less criminal, we are here taught, than those places which, though morally respectable, reject the Gospel message and affront those that bear it. Directions for the Future and Permanent Exercise of the Christian…Read the comment

Topics related to Matthew 10:15

• Commandments
• Gomorrah
• Jesus Continued
• Judgment
• Minister, Christian
• Opportunity
• Responsibility
• Sodom
• Unbelief

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Commentaries on Matthew 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings