The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- KJV The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- BSB The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.
- NASB The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
- NLT May the Lord be with your spirit. And may his grace be with all of you.
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Quick answer
Paul closes with a prayer that the Lord Jesus be with Timothy's spirit and that grace be with them all. The final word of his last letter is the grace of Christ.
Overview
Paul ends as he began so many letters, invoking the presence of the Lord Jesus and the gift of grace. Addressing Timothy's 'spirit' and then the wider 'you' (plural in the Greek) extends the blessing from his protege to the whole gathered church. That the very last recorded words of the apostle center on grace fittingly summarizes his life and message: salvation and perseverance rest on the unmerited favor of God in Christ. It is a benediction that still rests on all who belong to Jesus.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Phlm 1:25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
- Gal 6:18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.
- Col 4:18The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Pet 5:14Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
- Rev 22:21The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.
- Eph 6:24Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
- 1 Cor 16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 1 Tim 6:21which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Rom 16:20And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
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