Jude 1:21

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“keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.”

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“keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ--to life age-during;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jude 1:21 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
  2. Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
  3. Matthew 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
  4. Luke 12:36Then 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.
  5. John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  6. 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.”
  7. John 15:9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
  8. Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
  9. Romans 5:5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
  10. 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.
  11. Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  12. 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.
  13. 2 Thessalonians 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
  14. 1 Timothy 1:2To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
  15. 2 Timothy 1:2To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
  16. 2 Timothy 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
  17. 2 Timothy 1:18May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.
  18. 2 Timothy 4:8From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.
  19. Titus 2:13as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
  23. 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.
  24. 1 John 5:10Whoever 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.

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