Luke 21:28

New International Reader's Version

When these things begin to take place, stand up. Hold your head up with joy and hope. The time when you will be set free will be very close.”

Cross References

Luke 13:11

A woman there had been disabled by an evil spirit for 18 years. She was bent over and could not stand up straight.

Luke 18:7

God’s chosen people cry out to him day and night. Won’t he make things right for them? Will he keep putting them off?

Luke 21:29

Jesus told them a story. “Look at the fig tree and all the trees,” he said.

Romans 8:19

Everything God created looks forward to the future. That will be the time when his children appear in their full and final glory.

Romans 8:23

And that’s not all. We have the Holy Spirit as the promise of future blessing. But we also groan inside ourselves. We do this as we look forward to the time when God adopts us as full members of his family. Then he will give us everything he has for us. He will raise our bodies and give glory to them.

Ephesians 1:14

The Spirit marks us as God’s own. We can now be sure that someday we will receive all that God has promised. That will happen after God sets all his people completely free. All these things will bring praise to his glory.

Ephesians 4:30

Do not make God’s Holy Spirit mourn. The Holy Spirit is the proof that you belong to God. And the Spirit is the proof that God will set you completely free.