And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
- BSB And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
- NKJV And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.
- NASB This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
- NLT And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us.
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Quick answer
The promise Christ has given is eternal life. This is the believer's sure hope.
Overview
John names the great promise attached to abiding in Christ: eternal life. This is the gift Jesus himself has pledged. It assures believers that remaining faithful to the gospel leads to everlasting communion with God, a hope that anchors the soul amid deception and trial.
Cross-references & the web
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- John 10:28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- Titus 3:7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
- John 17:2–3As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
- Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
- 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
- 1 Jn 1:2(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
- Rom 5:21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
- John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
- John 12:50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
- 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
- 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- John 6:47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
- John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- 1 Tim 6:19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
- Dan 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- John 6:54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- Luke 18:30Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
- Gal 6:8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
- 1 Tim 1:16Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
- Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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