Matthew 1:21 - James Moffatt - New Testament

²¹ She will bear a son, and you will call him 'Jesus,' for he will save his people from their sins."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.

Common English Bible

²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you will call him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And she shall give birth to a son. And you shall call his name JESUS. For he shall accomplish the salvation of his people from their sins."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 Cross References

Matthew 1:25

but he did not live with her as a husband till she bore a son, whom he called Jesus.

Luke 1:13

but the angel said to him, "Fear not, Zechariah, your prayer has been heard; your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you must call his name John.

Luke 1:31

You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must call his name Jesus.

Luke 2:11

To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

Luke 2:21

When the eight days had passed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus — the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

John 1:29

Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

John 4:42

As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."

Acts 13:23

From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,

Acts 3:26

It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

Acts 4:12

There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."

Acts 5:31

God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

Hebrews 7:25

Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

1 John 1:7

but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

1 John 3:5

and you know he appeared to take [our] sins away. In him there is no sin;

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.