Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'

New American Standard Bible

Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.”

King James Version

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Holman Bible

I assure you: If anyone keeps My word, he will never see death—ever!”

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

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, if anyone keeps My word [by living in accordance with My message] he will indeed never, ever see and experience death.”

An Understandable Version

Truly, truly, I tell you, if a person obeys my message, he will never die [i.e., spiritually]."

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀμήν 
amen 
Usage: 48

ἀμήν 
amen 
Usage: 48

I say
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

If
ἐάν 
Ean 
Usage: 155

a man
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

τηρέω 
Tereo 
Usage: 49

my
ἐμός 
Emos 
my, mine, mine own, of me, I
Usage: 25

λόγος 
Logos 
word, saying, account, speech, Word , thing, not tr,
Usage: 256

he shall
θεωρέω 
theoreo 
Usage: 40

οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

see
θεωρέω 
theoreo 
Usage: 40

References

Hastings

Prayers for John 8:51

Context Readings

Jesus And Abraham

50 and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging; 51 verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.' 52 The Jews, therefore, said to him, 'Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

Cross References

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

Luke 2:26

and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit -- not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

Psalm 89:48

Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

John 3:15-16

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

John 8:55

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

John 15:20

'Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

John 6:50

this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.

John 8:12

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

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