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In your patience possess ye your souls.
Luke 21:19 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB “By your endurance you will win your lives.
  • BSB By your patient endurance you will gain 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 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
  • Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
  • Jas 1:3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  • Rom 5:3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
  • Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
  • Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
  • Rev 13:10He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  • Ps 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
  • Rev 14:12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
  • Heb 6:11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
  • Rev 2:2–3I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
  • Rom 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
  • Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
  • 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
  • Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
  • Heb 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • 2 Th 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
  • Ps 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
  • Rev 1:9I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Ps 27:13–14I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Rom 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures 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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