John 8:51 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵¹ Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵¹ Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵¹ I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone observes My teaching [lives in accordance with My message, keeps My word], he will by no means ever see and experience death.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵¹ Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall never see death.

Common English Bible

⁵¹ I assure you that whoever keeps my word will never die.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵¹ Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone will have kept my word, he will not see death for eternity."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵¹ Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

John 8:51 Cross References

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Matthew 16:28

Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Luke 2:26

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

John 17:6

“I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 6:50

This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die.

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 8:52

The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If any one keeps my word, he will never taste death.’

John 8:55

But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him and I keep his word.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.