Luke 12:3
Good News Translation
So then, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in broad daylight, and whatever you have whispered in private in a closed room will be shouted from the housetops.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Contemporary English Version
Whatever you say in the dark will be heard when it is day. Whatever you whisper in a closed room will be shouted from the housetops.

New American Bible
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers shall be preached on the housetops.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers shall be preached on the housetops.

whatsoever.

Job 24:14,15 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:12,13,20 The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong. . . .

Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.

Jude 1:14,15 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints: . . .

proclaimed.

housetops.

Matthew 10:27 That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

Context
The Leaven of the Pharisees
2For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor hidden that shall not be known. 3For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers shall be preached on the housetops. 4And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said.

Matthew 10:27
That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

Matthew 24:17
And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Luke 12:2
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