Luke 10:6 Meaning and Explanation
“And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →If a son of peace lives there, the blessing will rest on the house; if not, it returns to those who spoke it.
What Does Luke 10:6 Mean?
Jesus treats the spoken blessing as something real. It goes out, seeks a heart ready to receive it, and settles there; where it finds no welcome, it comes home unspent. A son of peace, in the idiom of the day, is a person marked by peace — open, receptive, prepared for what God is sending.
Nothing offered in the name of Christ is ever wasted. The messenger is freed from the burden of results: speak the peace, and let God govern where it lands. Rejection does not bankrupt the one who blesses; the peace returns, ready to be carried to the next door. That freedom keeps the heart soft in a work full of closed doors.
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What does Luke 10:6 mean?
If a son of peace lives there, the blessing will rest on the house; if not, it returns to those who spoke it.