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By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.
Luke 21:19 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB “By your endurance you will win your lives.
  • KJV In your patience possess ye your souls.
  • NKJV By your patience possess your souls.
  • NASB By your endurance you will gain your lives.
  • NLT By standing firm, you will win your souls.

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Quick answer

By patient endurance, believers will gain their lives, that is, their souls.

Overview

Jesus calls His followers to steadfast perseverance through trial and persecution. The gaining of life refers to the salvation of the soul and eternal life, not merely physical survival. Endurance to the end is the mark of genuine, saving faith preserved by grace.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Heb 10:36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
  • Matt 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
  • Jas 1:3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
  • Rom 5:3Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
  • Rev 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
  • Rom 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
  • Rev 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
  • Ps 37:7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
  • Rev 14:12Here is a call for the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
  • Heb 6:11We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.
  • Rev 2:2–3I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
  • Rom 8:25But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
  • Matt 24:13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
  • 1 Th 1:3and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Jas 5:7–11Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
  • Heb 6:15And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.
  • 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
  • Ps 40:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
  • Rev 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
  • Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
  • Ps 27:13–14Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Rom 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 21:19 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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