Luke 21:18

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Luke 21:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible

16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

17 And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.

18 Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.

19 By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.

20 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Luke 12:7

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

1 Samuel 25:29

And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

2 Samuel 14:11

“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

Matthew 10:30

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Acts 27:34

So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”