So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”
Parallel translations
- WEB But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”
- KJV And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
- BSB When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
- NKJV Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
- NASB But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
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When these things begin, believers should look up, for their redemption is drawing near.
Overview
Jesus transforms fearful signs into reason for hope for His people. While the world faints in terror, believers lift their heads in expectation. Christ's return means the completion of redemption, the resurrection of the body and the fullness of salvation.
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Cross-references · 9
- Rom 8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- Isa 60:1–2“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
- Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- Isa 12:1–3In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
- Rom 8:19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- Luke 18:7Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
- Ps 98:5–9Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
- Isa 25:8–9He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Eph 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
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