Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
Parallel translations
- KJV And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
- BSB And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
- NKJV And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
- NASB and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
- NLT Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”
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- John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
- John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- 1 Jn 5:10–12He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
- John 8:51–53Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
- John 6:54–58He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 3:15–18that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 6:50–51This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
- John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
- John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
- Matt 9:28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
- John 9:35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
- Mark 9:23Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
- Matt 26:53Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
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