Luke 1:77

Lexham English Bible

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
to give his people knowledge of salvationthrough the forgiveness of their sins.

King James Version (1611)
To giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,

King James Version
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,

English Standard Version
to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,

New American Standard Bible
To give His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

New Century Version
You will make his people know that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

Amplified Bible
To give His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
To give to His people the knowledge of salvation By the forgiveness of their sins,

Legacy Standard Bible
To give to His people the knowledge of salvationBy the forgiveness of their sins,

Berean Standard Bible
to give to His people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

Contemporary English Version
You will tell his people that they can be saved when their sins are forgiven.

Complete Jewish Bible
by spreading the knowledge among his people that deliverance comes by having sins forgiven

Darby Translation
to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by [the] remission of their sins

Easy-to-Read Version
You will make his people understand that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And to giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,

George Lamsa Translation
To give knowledge of life to his people by the forgiveness of their sins,

Good News Translation
to tell his people that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

Literal Translation
to give a knowledge of salvation to His people by remission of their sins,

American Standard Version
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people In the remission of their sins,

Bible in Basic English
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins,

Hebrew Names Version
To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

International Standard Version
and to give his people the knowledge of salvationMark 1:4; Luke 3:3;">[xr] through the forgiveness of their sins.

Etheridge Translation
To give the knowledge of salvation to his people In the forgiveness of their sins,

Murdock Translation
that he may give the knowledge of life to his people, and forgiveness of their sins,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
To geue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes.

English Revised Version
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people In the remission of their sins,

World English Bible
To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, by the remission of their sins,

Weymouth's New Testament
To give to His People a knowledge of salvation In the forgiveness of their sins,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To yyue scyence of helthe to his puple, in to remyssioun of her synnes;

Update Bible Version
To give knowledge of salvation to his people In the remission of their sins,

Webster's Bible Translation
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, by the remission of their sins,

New English Translation
to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.

New King James Version
To give knowledge of salvation to His people By the remission of their sins,

New Living Translation
You will tell his people how to find salvation through forgiveness of their sins.

New Life Bible
You will tell His people how to be saved from the punishment of sin by being forgiven of their sins.

New Revised Standard
to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Giving a knowledge of salvation unto his people, by a remission of their sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins.

Revised Standard Version
to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And to geve knowlege of salvacion vnto his people for the remission of synnes:

Young's Literal Translation
To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And to geue knowlege of saluacion vnto his people, for the remyssion of their synnes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
by acquainting his people how they may be saved by the remission of their sins,

Simplified Cowboy Version
You'll tell them that they will have salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.

Contextual Overview

⁶⁷ And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, ⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and has redeemed his people, ⁶⁹ and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, ⁷⁰ just as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times— ⁷¹ salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us, ⁷² to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, ⁷³ the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to grant us ⁷⁴ that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, could serve him without fear ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. ⁷⁶ And so you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

give: Luke 3:3, Luke 3:6, Mark 1:3, Mark 1:4, John 1:7-9, John 1:15-17, John 1:29, John 1:34, John 3:27-36, Acts 19:4

by: or, for

the: Luke 7:47-50, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Acts 5:31, Acts 10:43, Acts 13:38, Acts 13:39, Romans 3:25, Romans 4:6-8, Ephesians 1:7

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - my salvation Psalms 119:130 - entrance Isaiah 40:3 - Prepare Luke 19:42 - the things John 5:35 - was Acts 13:26 - to you Acts 16:17 - the way Acts 26:18 - that they 1 Timothy 2:4 - the knowledge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To give knowledge of salvation,.... This is still said of John, and belongs to his work and office; though the Syriac and Arabic versions read, "that he may give"; as if it was spoken of the Lord, before whose face John was to go, and whose ways he was to prepare: by "salvation" is meant, not a temporal salvation, or a deliverance from the Roman yoke, the Jews were expecting, for John gave no intimation of any such salvation; but of a spiritual and eternal salvation, and of Christ himself, the author of it; who is often called Salvation, because he was appointed to this business, was fitted for it, and has effected it; and there is salvation in him, and in no other, the "knowledge" of this is not merely, notional and speculative, but experimental, approbative, fiducial, appropriating, sure, and certain; and is more excellent, than any other kind of knowledge whatever: and this is a "gift"; it is not what is attained unto, and acquired by application, diligence, and industry, as other sort of knowledge; but is a gift of God, though in the use of means, and through the ministry of the word: and so John is said to give it ministerially, he being an instrument in the hand of God, whereby souls came to the knowledge of salvation by Christ, and believed in him: it was communicated by God through his ministry,

unto his people: meaning not the people of John the Baptist, the Jews, though it was true of God's elect among them; but the people of Christ, and that not all mankind, who are his by creation; but a special people, whom the Father has given him, and he has purchased by his blood; whom he conquers by his grace, and makes a willing people, in the day of his power: to these, and only these, is the knowledge of salvation by Christ given; for none else are appointed to it, and for no other is it wrought out. It follows,

by the remission of their sins; the sense of which is, either that salvation is by the forgiveness of sin, and lies in it, that being a principal part of it; see Ephesians 1:7. Sins are debts; forgiving them is a remitting these debts, a loosing them, or the obligation to payment, which is done freely and fully, for Christ's sake, and through his blood; and herein lies the blessedness and salvation of men; see Romans 4:6. Or else that the knowledge of salvation was conveyed through the ministry of John, not by preaching the works of the law, but the doctrine of remission of sins, by Christ; Mark 1:4 and which is the sum and substance of the Gospel, as it was ordered to be preached by Christ, and was preached by his apostles. The Alexandrian copy reads, "our sins".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To give knowledge of salvation - Knowledge of the “way” of salvation: that it was provided, and that the author of salvation was about to appear.

By the remission of their sins - The word remission means pardon or forgiveness. It implies that God will treat the sinner as if he had not committed the sin. The idea here is, that the “salvation” about to be offered was that which was connected with the pardon of sin. There can be no other. God cannot treat people as his friends unless they come to him by repentance and obtain forgiveness. When that is obtained, which he is always disposed to grant, they can be treated with kindness and mercy.