Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
- KJV Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
- BSB The God of peace be with all of you. Amen.
- NKJV Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
- NLT And now may God, who gives us his peace, be with you all. Amen.
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Quick answer
Paul closes the section with a benediction: may the God of peace be with you all. Amen. He commits the church to the God who gives peace.
Overview
This brief benediction caps the main body of personal remarks. Calling God 'the God of peace' is fitting after a letter much concerned with peace among believers and peace with God through Christ. Paul entrusts the whole congregation to God's gracious presence. The 'Amen' seals the prayer, expressing confident desire that God's peace would indeed rest upon them.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- Phil 4:9The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
- 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
- Rom 16:20And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
- 1 Cor 14:33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
- 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
- Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
- Ruth 2:4Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Rom 16:23Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
- 2 Cor 5:19–20namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
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