1 Corinthians 1:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

King James Version (1611)
Who shall also confirme you vnto the end, that yee may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.

King James Version
Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

English Standard Version
who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New American Standard Bible
who will also confirm you to the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New Century Version
Jesus will keep you strong until the end so that there will be no wrong in you on the day our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

Amplified Bible
And He will also confirm you to the end [keeping you strong and free of any accusation, so that you will be] blameless and beyond reproach in the day [of the return] of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
who will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Legacy Standard Bible
who will also confirm you to the end, beyond reproach in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Berean Standard Bible
He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Contemporary English Version
And until the day Christ does return, he will keep you completely innocent.

Complete Jewish Bible
He will enable you to hold out until the end and thus be blameless on the Day of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah —

Darby Translation
who shall also confirm you to [the] end, unimpeachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will keep you strong until the end so that on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes, you will be free from all blame.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Who shall also confirme you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse, in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.

George Lamsa Translation
Who will also strengthen you to the end so that you may be blameless in the day of our LORD Jesus Christ.

Good News Translation
He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be faultless on the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Lexham English Bible
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Literal Translation
who also will confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

American Standard Version
who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Bible in Basic English
Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrew Names Version
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

International Standard Version
He will keep you strong until the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.Colossians 1:22; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 5:23;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
who will confirm you to the end, that you may be without fault in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.

Murdock Translation
who will confirm you unto the end, so that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Messiah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whiche shall also strength you vnto the ende, that ye may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ.

English Revised Version
who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

World English Bible
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who will also confirm you to the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Weymouth's New Testament
who will also keep you stedfast to the very End, so that you will be free from reproach on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which also schal conferme you in to the ende with outen cryme, in the dai of the comyng of oure Lord Jhesu Crist.

Update Bible Version
who shall also confirm you to the end, [that you are] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who will also confirm you to the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New English Translation
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New King James Version
who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

New Living Translation
He will keep you strong to the end so that you will be free from all blame on the day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns.

New Life Bible
Christ will keep you strong until He comes again. No blame will be held against you.

New Revised Standard
He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who will also confirm you unto the end, unaccusable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Revised Standard Version
who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
which shall streght you vnto ye ende that ye maye be blamelesse in ye daye of oure lorde Iesus Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
who also shall confirm you unto the end -- unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which shal strength you also vnto ye ende, that ye maye be blamelesse in the daye of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Simplified Cowboy Version
He's going to keep you strong in the saddle and on the day of his return, he's going to vouch for you before God.

Contextual Overview

¹I, Paul, have been called and sent by Jesus, the Messiah, according to God's plan, along with my friend Sosthenes. I send this letter to you in God's church at Corinth, believers cleaned up by Jesus and set apart for a God-filled life. I include in my greeting all who call out to Jesus, wherever they live. He's their Master as well as ours! ³ May all the gifts and benefits that come from God our Father, and the Master, Jesus Christ, be yours. ⁴Every time I think of you—and I think of you often!—I thank God for your lives of free and open access to God, given by Jesus. There's no end to what has happened in you—it's beyond speech, beyond knowledge. The evidence of Christ has been clearly verified in your lives. ⁷Just think—you don't need a thing, you've got it all! All God's gifts are right in front of you as you wait expectantly for our Master Jesus to arrive on the scene for the Finale. And not only that, but God himself is right alongside to keep you steady and on track until things are all wrapped up by Jesus. God, who got you started in this spiritual adventure, shares with us the life of his Son and our Master Jesus. He will never give up on you. Never forget that.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

confirm: Psalms 37:17, Psalms 37:28, Romans 14:4, Romans 16:25, 2 Corinthians 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, 2 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Peter 5:10

blameless: Ephesians 5:27, Philippians 2:15, Colossians 1:22, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, 2 Peter 3:14, Jude 1:24, Jude 1:25

the day: Philippians 1:6, Philippians 1:10, Philippians 2:16, 2 Peter 3:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 92:15 - To show Psalms 119:33 - I shall keep Jeremiah 46:9 - Ethiopians Matthew 24:13 - General John 13:1 - unto Acts 14:22 - Confirming Acts 15:32 - confirmed 1 Corinthians 3:13 - the day 1 Corinthians 5:5 - the day 2 Corinthians 1:14 - in the Ephesians 1:4 - without 2 Thessalonians 1:2 - General 2 Thessalonians 1:11 - fulfil 2 Thessalonians 2:17 - stablish 1 Timothy 3:10 - being 1 Timothy 6:14 - until Hebrews 12:2 - finisher 2 Peter 3:12 - hasting unto the coming

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who shall also confirm you unto the end,.... The author of this blessing of confirmation is not the Lord Jesus Christ, though he is mentioned in the latter part of 1 Corinthians 1:7; and seems to be the antecedent to the relative "who" in this, but is not, for this confirmation is made in him; see 2 Corinthians 1:21; and besides, it is in order that the saints might be blameless in the day of Christ, and so must design some other person distinct from him, which is God the Father, 1 Corinthians 1:4, to whom the apostle gives thanks, and continues to do so unto this verse; in which he assures the saints of confirmation in grace by God, the author and giver of all grace: and which may be understood of their confirmation in the love and favour of God, from which there can be no separation; and of their establishment in the person of Christ, and in the doctrines of grace; and of the permanency of the grace of the Spirit in them, and of their perseverance in faith and holiness unto the end: that is, of their days; even until the day of Christ, when the good work begun in them shall be performed and finished; that is, "for ever", as the Ethiopic version reads it; for the love of God to his people always continues; their interest in Christ can never be lost; grace in them is an immortal seed; nor shall they be ever finally and totally moved away from the hope of the Gospel:

that ye may be blameless; not in themselves, for no man is without his faults; none of God's children are without their failings and infirmities; they have whereof to blame themselves, and may be blamed by God too in a providential way; but they are so in Christ their head, being justified by his righteousness, and washed in his blood; and so in the sight of God, as considered in Christ; and will appear such

in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he shall descend from heaven, and take his saints to him, and present them to himself a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who shall also confirm you - Who shall establish you in the hopes of the gospel. He shall make you “firm” (βεβαιώσει bebaiōsei) amidst all your trials, and all the efforts which may be made to shake your faith, and to remove you from that firm foundation on which you now rest.

Unto the end - That is, to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. He would keep them to the end of life in the path of holiness, so that at the coming of the Lord Jesus they might be found blameless; compare John 13:1. The sense is, that they should be kept, and should not be suffered to fall away and perish - and this is one of the many places which express the strong confidence of Paul that those who are true Christians shall be preserved unto everlasting life; compare Philippians 1:6.

That ye may be blameless - The word rendered “blameless” ἀνεγκλήτου anegklētou does not mean perfect, but properly denotes those against whom there is no charge of crime; who are unaccused, and against whom there is no ground of accusation. Here it does not mean that they were personally perfect, but that God would so keep them, and enable them to evince a Christian character, as to give evidence that they were his friends, and completely escape condemnation in the last Day; see the notes at Romans 8:33-34. There is no man who has not his faults; no Christian who is not conscious of imperfection; but it is the design of God so to keep his people, and so to justify and sanctify them through the Lord Jesus, that the church may be presented “a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle” Ephesians 5:27 on the Day of Judgment.

In the day ... - On the Day when the Lord Jesus shall come to judge the world; and which will be called his Day, because it will be the Day in which he will be the great and conspicuous object, and which is especially appointed to glorify him; see 2 Thessalonians 1:10, “Who shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 1:8. Who shall - confirm you — As the testimony of Christ was confirmed among you, so, in conscientiously believing and obeying, God will confirm you through that testimony. See 1 Corinthians 1:6.

In the day of our Lord Jesus — In the day that he comes to judge the world, according to some; but, in the day in which he comes to destroy the Jewish polity, according to others. While God destroys them who are disobedient, he can save you who believe.