Mark 13:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”
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“Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Mark 13:31 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Joshua 23:14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
- 2 Kings 15:12So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
- Psalms 19:7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
- Psalms 102:25In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
- Isaiah 40:8The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
- Zechariah 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
- Matthew 5:18For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Luke 21:33Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- 2 Timothy 2:13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Hebrews 1:10And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
- 2 Peter 3:10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
- Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
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