Mark 13:31

You can be certain that these things that I have prophesied will happen. You can be more certain of that than you can be certain that the earth and what is in the sky will stay in place.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

In Context

30Keep this in mind: You have observed the things that I have done and said, but all of those events that I have just told you about will happen before all of you will die.

32But no one knows the exact time when I will return. The angels in heaven also do not know. Even I do not know. Only my Father knows.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:19God is not a human being. Humans lie, but God never lies. He never changes his mind/thoughts, as humans do. Whatever he has said that he will do, he does.

2 Kings 15:12When Zechariah died, that ended the dynasty of King Jehu. That fulfilled what Yahweh said to King Jehu would happen: “Your son and grandson and great-grandson and great-great-grandson will all be kings of Israel.”

Psalms 102:25You created the world long ago, and you made ◄the heavens/everything in the sky► with your own hands.

Isaiah 51:6Look up at the sky, and look at the earth, and see what they are like now, because some day the sky will disappear like [SIM] smoke, and the earth will wear out like [SIM] old clothes wear out, and people on the earth will die like gnats/flies. But I will rescue/save you, and you will remain free forever, and I will rule you righteously/fairly forever.

Matthew 5:18Keep this in mind: Every point of those laws, including those points that seem least important, and even the smallest details of the laws [MTY] will surely be in effect [HYP, LIT] until the heavens and the earth disappear and until all that God told their authors to write happens.

Luke 21:33You can be certain that these things that I have told you about will happen. That they will happen is more certain than that the earth and sky will continue to exist.”

Matthew Henry on Mark 13:29-37

Watchfulness Inculcated. 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: 29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. 30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven,… Read the whole commentary →

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