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By standing firm, you will win your souls.
Luke 21:19 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB “By your endurance you will win your lives.
  • KJV In your patience possess ye your souls.
  • 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.

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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 you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
  • Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Jas 1:3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
  • Rom 5:3Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
  • Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
  • Rom 2:7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
  • Rev 13:10If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
  • Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
  • Rev 14:12Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
  • Heb 6:11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
  • Rev 2:2–3“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
  • Rom 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
  • Matt 24:13But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
  • 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
  • Jas 5:7–11Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
  • Heb 6:15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
  • Ps 40:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
  • Rev 1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
  • Ps 27:13–14I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
  • Rom 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Luke videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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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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