who will also confirm you to the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Parallel translations
- WEB who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- KJV Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- BSB He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NKJV who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- NLT He will keep you strong to the end so that you will be free from all blame on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns.
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Quick answer
God himself will keep them firm to the end, blameless on the day of Christ. Their final standing rests on God's faithfulness, not their own strength.
Overview
Paul assures the Corinthians that the God who began the work will 'confirm' them to the end, presenting them blameless when Christ returns. This is a foundation of Christian assurance: perseverance is ultimately God's accomplishment, not human achievement. The 'day of our Lord Jesus Christ' is the day of judgment and consummation when believers are vindicated in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Th 5:23–24May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
- Col 1:22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
- Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
- Jude 1:24–25Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
- 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
- Eph 5:27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
- Rom 16:25—
- 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
- Phil 2:15–16that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
- Phil 1:10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
- Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Rom 14:4Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
- 2 Pet 3:14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
- 2 Cor 1:21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
- 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
- Ps 37:17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
- 2 Cor 1:14as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
- 1 Cor 5:5are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- Luke 17:24for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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