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By your endurance you will win your souls.
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Gain, Don't Just Possess
Multiple commentators (Barnes, Ellicott, Robertson) clarify that the Greek is better translated as, "By your endurance you will gain your souls." This shifts the meaning from passively possessing something to actively acquiring true, ultimate life through steadfast perseverance in the face of trials.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In your patience. Rather, by your perseverance. The word patience here means constancy or perseverance in sustaining afflictions.…
Ye shall win (κτησεσθε). Future middle of κταομα, to acquire. They will win their souls even if death does come.
19th Century
Anglican
In your patience possess you your souls.—Better, By your endurance gain you your lives. The verb, unless used in…
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Baptist
And it is so even to this day. Here is another instance in which the Lord instructed his people to expect his coming, and yet at the same time told…
Encouragement during persecution. In its content this section bears some similarity to Mk 13:9–13 and also the account of the sending out of the Tw…
16th Century
Protestant
In your patience. Here Christ enjoins on his followers a different method of defending their life from what is dictated by carnal reason. …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In your patience, possess your souls . ] By patiently bearing all afflictions, reproaches, indignities, and persecut…
With much curiosity, those around Christ ask about the time when the great desolation would occur. He answers with clarity and fullness, to the ext…
