Luke 21:18
16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
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
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Read in context1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Read in contextActs 27:34
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Read in contextLuke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Read in context2 Samuel 14:11
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
Read in context1 Samuel 25:29
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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