Luke 21:18
16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
17 And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
19 By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.
20 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
- KJV
- But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
- WEB
- And not a hair of your head will perish.
- ASV
- And not a hair of your head shall perish.
- DARBY
- And a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.
- BLB
- And no, not a hair of your⁺ head shall perish.
- ÅB
- Og ikke et hår på deres hode skal gå tapt.
- OTB
- Men ikke et hår på hodet deres skal gå tapt.
- B1930
- Og ikke et hår på eders hode skal gå tapt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 10:30
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Read in context1 Samuel 14:45
But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
Read in contextActs 27:34
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
Read in contextLuke 12:7
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Read in context2 Samuel 14:11
“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
Read in context1 Samuel 25:29
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
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