John 11:26

Contemporary English Version

And everyone who lives because of faith in me will never really die. Do you believe this?"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
And everyone who lives and believes in me will never really die. Martha, do you believe this?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And whosoever lyveth and belevest on me shall never dye. Beleveth thou this?

Hebrew Names Version
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

International Standard Version
Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?"

New American Standard Bible
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

New Century Version
And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Martha, do you believe this?"

Update Bible Version
and whoever lives and believes on me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Webster's Bible Translation
And whoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die. Believest thou this?

English Standard Version
and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

World English Bible
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall not die for ever.

Weymouth's New Testament
and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he schal lyue; and ech that lyueth, and bileueth in me, schal not die with outen ende. Bileuest thou this thing?

English Revised Version
and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Berean Standard Bible
And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Amplified Bible
and everyone who lives and believes in Me [as Savior] will never die. Do you believe this?"

American Standard Version
and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Bible in Basic English
And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

Complete Jewish Bible
and everyone living and trusting in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Darby Translation
and every one who lives and believes on me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Etheridge Translation
And every one who liveth and believeth in me, for ever shall not die. Believest thou this ?

Murdock Translation
And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, will not die for ever. Believest thou this?

King James Version (1611)
And whosoeuer liueth, and beleeueth in mee, shall neuer die. Beleeuest thou this?

New Living Translation
Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?"

New Life Bible
Anyone who lives and has put his trust in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

New Revised Standard
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And whosoeuer liueth, and beleeueth in me, shall neuer die: Beleeuest thou this?

George Lamsa Translation
And whoever is alive and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, no one who liveth again and believeth on me, shall in anywise die, unto times age-abiding. Believest thou this?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for ever. Believest thou this?

Revised Standard Version
and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whosoeuer lyueth, and beleueth on me, shall neuer dye. Beleuest thou this?

Good News Translation
and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Christian Standard Bible®
Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.

King James Version
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Lexham English Bible
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever. Do you believe this?"

Literal Translation
And everyone living and believing into Me shall not die to the age, never! Do you believe this?

Young's Literal Translation
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& whosoeuer lyueth and beleueth on me, shal neuer dye. Beleuest thou this?

Mace New Testament (1729)
and no man living that believeth in me, shall ever die.

New English Translation
and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

New King James Version
And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Anyone who rides for me will never die. Do you believe this Martha?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Legacy Standard Bible
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?"

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ When Jesus got to Bethany, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. ¹⁸ Bethany was only about two miles from Jerusalem, ¹⁹ and many people had come from the city to comfort Martha and Mary because their brother had died. ²⁰ When Martha heard that Jesus had arrived, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed in the house. ²¹ Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²² Yet even now I know that God will do anything you ask." ²³ Jesus told her, "Your brother will live again!" ²⁴ Martha answered, "I know that he will be raised to life on the last day, when all the dead are raised." ²⁵ Jesus then said, "I am the one who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in me will live, even if they die. ²⁶ And everyone who lives because of faith in me will never really die. Do you believe this?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whosoever: John 3:15-18, John 4:14, John 5:24, John 6:50, John 6:54-58, John 8:52, John 8:53, John 10:28, Romans 8:13, 1 John 5:10-12

Believest: John 9:35, John 14:10, Matthew 9:28, Matthew 26:53, Mark 9:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:20 - thy life Psalms 22:29 - and none Psalms 68:20 - unto Psalms 133:3 - even life Isaiah 26:19 - my dead Ezekiel 37:3 - O Lord God Ezekiel 47:9 - every thing Mark 16:16 - that believeth and Luke 20:38 - for all John 5:19 - and John 5:26 - so hath John 5:40 - that John 6:27 - which the John 6:57 - even John 8:51 - If John 11:44 - he that John 14:6 - the life John 17:2 - give Acts 2:28 - made Acts 3:15 - Prince Acts 16:31 - Believe Romans 4:11 - father Romans 5:10 - we shall Romans 8:10 - but 1 Corinthians 6:14 - by 1 Corinthians 15:13 - General 1 Corinthians 15:45 - a quickening 2 Corinthians 4:14 - that Galatians 3:22 - to Ephesians 2:1 - you Philippians 3:10 - and the power Colossians 1:18 - the firstborn 2 Timothy 1:10 - who Hebrews 7:8 - he liveth 1 Peter 2:4 - a living 1 John 1:2 - the life 1 John 4:9 - we 1 John 5:11 - this Revelation 20:12 - I saw

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,

Genesis 11:20
When Reu was thirty-two he had a son named Serug.

Genesis 11:24
When Nahor was twenty-nine, he had a son named Terah.

Genesis 11:26
After Terah was seventy years old, he had three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran, who became the father of Lot. Terah's sons were born in the city of Ur in Chaldea, and Haran died there before the death of his father. The following is the story of Terah's descendants.

Joshua 24:2
Then Joshua told everyone to listen to this message from the Lord , the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, and they worshiped other gods. This continued until the time of your ancestor Terah and his two sons, Abraham and Nahor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me,..... Whoever will be found alive at Christ's second coming, and is a believer in him,

shall never die, but shall be changed, and shall be for ever with Christ; and such as shall be raised to life by him, shall never die any more, not even a bodily death, and much less an eternal one, or the second death: and though believers die a corporeal death as others do, yet their souls live, and live in happiness, whilst their bodies are under the power of death; nor shall they always continue so, but being raised, shall become immortal, and die no more. So living believers in Christ shall never die more a spiritual death; they are passed from death to life, and shall never return to death more; their spiritual life cannot be lost; grace in them is an immortal seed, a well of living water springing up into everlasting life: grace may be very low in its exercise, and may seem to be ready to die; they may be in lifeless frames, and without the comforts of a spiritual life, and be under the hidings of God's face, which is as death unto them, and may reckon themselves as free among the dead; yet the principle of life will never be extinct in them; nor shall they die the second death, which lies in an eternal separation from God, and in an everlasting sense of his wrath; that shall have no power on them, nor shall they be in the least hurt by it; for they are ordained to eternal life, and have the promise of it; they are united to Christ, and their life is secured in him; and he has redeemed them from death; and they have the Spirit of life dwelling in them, as the pledge and earnest of eternal glory.

Believest thou this? the whole of this concerning the power of Christ, and privilege of believers; every tittle of it is to be believed. And as with respect to a corporeal resurrection, so with regard to a spiritual one; that men by nature are dead in sins; that Christ is the author of the resurrection from such a state, to a spiritual life; that this life is only by Christ, and can never be lost: this is a doctrine to be believed; it is the doctrine of the Scriptures; it is according to godliness; it makes for the comfort of the people of God, and glorifies the divine perfections.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whosoever liveth - He had just spoken of the prospects of the pious dead. He now says that the same prospects are before the living who have like faith. Greek, “Every one living and believing on me.”

Shall never die - As the dead, though dead, shall yet live, so the living shall have the same kind of life. They shall never come into eternal death. See John 6:50-51, John 6:54, John 6:58. Greek, “Shall by no means die forever.”

Believest thou this? - This question was doubtless asked because it implied that he was then able to raise up Lazarus, and because it was a proper time for her to test her own faith. The time of affliction is a favorable period to try ourselves to ascertain whether we have faith. If we still have confidence in God, if we look to him for comfort in such seasons, it is good evidence that we are his friends. He that loves God when he takes away his comforts, has the best evidence possible of true attachment to him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Shall never die. — Or, Shall not die for ever. Though he die a temporal death. he shall not continue under its power for ever; but shall have a resurrection to life eternal.

Believest thou this? — God has determined to work in the behalf of men only in proportion to their faith in him: it was necessary, therefore, that these persons should be well instructed concerning his nature, that they might find no obstacles to their faith. These sisters had considered him only as a prophet hitherto; and it was necessary that they should now be farther instructed, that, as God was to exert himself, they might believe that God was there.