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A Call to Persevere

Jude 1:21

In 9 translations

BSB
keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
KJV
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
WEB
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
ASV
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
LSV
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ [resulting] in continuous life;
YLT
yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ — to life age-during;
DBY
keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.Elohim
DRC
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.
GNV
And keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἑαυτοὺς ἐν ἀγάπῃ θεοῦ τηρήσατε προσδεχόμενοι τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον.
RP2018
ἑαυτοὺς ἐν ἀγάπῃ θεοῦ τηρήσατε, προσδεχόμενοι τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον.
TR-Boyd
ἑαυτοὺς ἐν ἀγάπῃ Θεοῦ τηρήσατε, προσδεχόμενοι τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον.
SCR1894
εαυτους εν αγαπη θεου τηρησατε προσδεχομενοι το ελεος του κυριου ημων ιησου χριστου εις ζωην αιωνιον

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 John 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
  • Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
  • Hebrews 9:28so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
  • John 15:9–10As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
  • 2 Peter 3:12as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat.
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
  • Revelation 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
  • John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
  • Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Titus 2:13–14as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous…
  • Romans 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • 2 Timothy 1:2To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Romans 8:39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Luke 12:36–40Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on…
  • 1 John 5:10–11Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son. And this is…
  • 1 John 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

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