if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Parallel translations
- KJV If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
- BSB and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- ESV that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
- NKJV if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- NASB if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- NLT so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
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- Luke 20:35–36But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
- Rev 20:5The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
- Acts 23:6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
- Acts 26:7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
- Heb 11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
- 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- Ps 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
- 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
- 1 Cor 9:22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
- Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
- Rom 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
- 2 Th 2:3Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
- John 11:24Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
- Acts 27:12Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.
- 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
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