Luke 21:19 Meaning and Explanation
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Jesus closes the persecution warnings with a charge: in patient endurance his followers will possess their souls.
What Does Luke 21:19 Mean?
This single sentence gathers up everything Jesus has said about trials: in your patience possess ye your souls. The word rendered patience means steadfast endurance, the long obedience that keeps holding on under pressure. It is the posture he asks of his people through the entire troubled age he has described.
Endurance, for the Christian, is not gritted-teeth stoicism; it is staying with Jesus when staying is costly, trusting the promises of verses 15 and 18 across years and not just moments. In that enduring, life is not lost but gained, kept, possessed. The world is won by force; the soul is kept by patience, and the patient are those who know whom they are waiting for.
Luke 21:19 in the Original Language
hypomone (ὑπομονή), 'patience' -- steadfast endurance that holds its ground under long trial.
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What does Luke 21:19 mean?
Jesus closes the persecution warnings with a charge: in patient endurance his followers will possess their souls.