Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person obeys my message, he will never die [i.e., spiritually]."
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."
A Conservative Version
Truly, truly, I say to you, if any man keeps my word, he will, no, not see death, into the age.
American Standard Version
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall never see death.
Amplified
Anderson New Testament
Verily, verily I say to you, if any one will keep my word, he shall never see death.
Bible in Basic English
Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
Common New Testament
Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word he will never see death."
Daniel Mace New Testament
verily, verily, I say unto you, whoever observes my doctrine, shall never die.
Darby Translation
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one shall keep my word, he shall never see death.
Godbey New Testament
Truly, truly, I say unto you, if any one may keep my word, he may never see death.
Goodspeed New Testament
I tell you, if anyone observes my teaching, he will never experience death."
John Wesley New Testament
Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my word, he shall never see death.
Julia Smith Translation
Truly, truly, I say to you, If any keep my word, he should never see death.
King James 2000
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keeps my saying, he shall never see death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never experience death {forever}."
Modern King James verseion
Truly, truly, I say to you, If a man keeps My Word, he shall never see death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death."
Moffatt New Testament
Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."
Montgomery New Testament
"In solemn truth I tell you that if any one obeys my teaching he shall never behold death."
NET Bible
I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death."
New Heart English Bible
Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
Noyes New Testament
Truly, truly do I say to you, If any one keep my word, he will never see death.
Sawyer New Testament
I tell you most truly, if any one shall keep my word he shall never see death.
The Emphasized Bible
Verily, verily, I say unto you: If anyone shall keep, my word, death, shall he not see, unto times age-abiding.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any man observe my saying, he shall never see death to all eternity.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In truth I tell you, if any one lays my Message to heart, he will never really die."
Webster
Verily, verily, I say to you, If a man shall keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Weymouth New Testament
In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death."
Williams New Testament
I most solemnly say to you, if anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death."
World English Bible
Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
Worrell New Testament
Verily, verily, I say to you, if any one keeps My word, he shall never see death."
Worsley New Testament
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one keep my word, he shall never see death.
Youngs Literal Translation
verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'
Themes
Christ » Words of characteristics of » Eternal life
eternal Death » Christ, the only way of escape from
Immortality » General references to
Man » Ignorance of » Immortality of
Man's » Immortality » General references to
Self-righteousness » Instances of » Pharisees
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Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:51
Prayers for John 8:51
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus And Abraham
50 I am not looking for personal honor; but there is One who is looking for it [i.e., God], and He judges people [fairly]. 51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person obeys my message, he will never die [i.e., spiritually]." 52 The Jews [i.e., the authorities] replied, "Now we know that you are dominated by an evil spirit. Abraham and the prophets [all] died and [yet] you are saying, 'If a person obeys my message, he will never experience death.'
Phrases
Cross References
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; the person who believes in me will live on, even though he dies [physically].
Luke 2:26
Now it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ [i.e., God's, specially chosen one].
John 3:15-16
so that whoever believes in Him would have never ending life." [Note: Some translations extend Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus through verse 21].
John 5:24
"Truly, truly, I tell you, the person who listens to my message and believes [in] the One who sent me [i.e., God] has never ending life [i.e., as a hope. See Titus 1:2; 3:7]. He will not be judged [and condemned], but has [already] passed from being [spiritually] dead to being [spiritually] alive.
John 8:55
Now you people have not known Him [i.e., to be your Lord], but I know Him. And if I should say, 'I do not know Him,' I would be a liar like you. But I [do] know Him, and I obey His message.
John 15:20
Remember what I said to you, 'A slave is not greater [in importance] than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will [also] persecute you, too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
John 6:50
[But] this is the bread that has come down from heaven [i.e., Jesus is referring to Himself], so that a person who eats of it [i.e., believes in Jesus] will not die [spiritually].
John 8:12
So, Jesus spoke to them again [i.e., to the Jewish authorities. See 7:45], saying, "I am the light of the world. The person who becomes my follower will never live in [spiritual] darkness, but have the light of [i.e., for his] life [i.e., followers of Jesus will not live in error and sin but in truth and righteousness]."
Hebrews 11:5
By [having] faith, Enoch was taken [to be with God], so that he did not have to die. And he could not be found because God had taken him away. For he had been commended [by God] before he was taken away, that he had pleased God. [Note: The Hebrew of Gen. 5:24 says, "he walked with God"].