Luke 21 · Verse 19

Luke 21:19

In your patience possess ye your souls.
Luke 21:19, King James Version

Luke 21:19 in other translations

BSBBy your patient endurance you will gain your souls.
WEB“By your endurance you will win your lives.
ASVIn your patience ye shall win your souls.
YLTin your patience possess ye your souls.
DARBYBy your patient endurance gain your souls.
BBEBy going through all these things, you will keep your lives.
WebsterIn your patience possess ye your souls.

What does Luke 21:19 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 19. In your patience. Rather by your perseverance. The word patience here means constancy or perseverance in sustaining afflictions.

Possess ye your souls. Some read here the future instead of the present of the verb rendered possess. The word possess means here to preserve or keep, and the word souls means lives. This passage may be thus translated: By persevering in bearing these trials you will save your lives, or you will be safe; or, by persevering preserve your lives, that is, do not yield to these calamities, but bear up under them, for he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. Comp. Mt 24:13.

(s) "In your patience" Rom 5:3, He 10:36, Jas 1:4

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 In your patience - Rather, your perseverance, your faithful continuance in my word and doctrine. Ye will preserve your souls. Ye shall escape the Roman sword, and not one of you shall perish in the destruction of Jerusalem. Instead of κτησασθε, possess, or preserve ye, I read κτησεσθε, ye shall preserve. This reading is supported by AB-B, five others; both the Syriac, all the Arabic, Ethiopic, Vulgate, all the Itala except two, Origen, Macarius, and Tertullian.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 21:5-28

With much curiosity those about Christ ask as to the time when the great desolation should be. He answers with clearness and fulness, as far as was necessary to teach them their duty; for all knowledge is desirable as far as it is in order to practice. Though spiritual judgements are the most common in gospel times, yet God makes use of temporal judgments also. Christ tells them what hard things they should suffer…

Read the full comment on Luke 21:5-28 →

Luke 21:19 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἐνenByG1722
τῇtēatheG3588
ὑπομονῇhupomonēapatient enduranceG5281
ὑμῶνhumōnof you [all]G4771
κτήσασθεktēsasthedo you gain yourselvesG2932
τὰςtastheG3588
ψυχὰςpsuchassoulsG5590
ὑμῶν.¶humōnof you [all].G4771

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 21:19

  • Hebrews 10:36

    For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

  • Matthew 10:22

    And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

  • James 1:3

    Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

  • Romans 5:3

    And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

  • Revelation 3:10

    Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

  • Romans 2:7

    To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

  • Revelation 13:10

    He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

  • Psalms 37:7

    Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

  • Revelation 14:12

    Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

  • Hebrews 6:11

    And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

  • Matthew 24:13

    But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

  • 1 Thessalonians 1:3

    Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8:15; Ps 27:13,14; 37:7; 40:1; Ro 2:7; 5:3; 8:25; 15:4; 1Th 1:3
2Th 3:5; Heb 6:11,15; 10:36; Jas 1:3; 5:7-11; Re 1:9; 2:2,3; 3:10
Re 13:10; 14:12

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Context

  • Luke 21:18

    But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

  • Luke 21:19

    In your patience possess ye your souls.

  • Luke 21:20

    And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

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Luke 21:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En vuestra paciencia poseeréis vuestras almas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Possédez vos âmes par votre patience.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Gewinnet eure Seelen durch euer Ausharren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		In patientia vestra possidebitis animas vestras.