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βIn hope of eternal life, which God, thatd cannot lie, promised beforee the world began;*

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1 Sam. 15:29• ²⁹And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. (1 Sam. 15:29)

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Heb. 6:18• ¹⁸That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (Heb. 6:18)

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Matt. 25:34• ³⁴Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Matt. 25:34)

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hope.

Titus 2:7,13• ⁷In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
¹³Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:7,13)

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Titus 3:7• ⁷That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:7)

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John 5:39• ³⁹Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. (John 5:39)

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John 6:68• ⁶⁸Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (John 6:68)

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Rom. 2:7• ⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: (Rom. 2:7)

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Rom. 5:2,4• ²By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
⁴And patience, experience; and experience, hope: (Rom. 5:2,4)

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Col. 1:27• ²⁷To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Col. 1:27)

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1 Thess. 5:8• ⁸But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. (1 Thess. 5:8)

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2 Tim. 1:1• ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, (2 Tim. 1:1)

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2 Tim. 2:10• ¹⁰Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2 Tim. 2:10)

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1 Peter 1:3‑4• ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
⁴To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (1 Peter 1:3‑4)

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1 John 2:25• ²⁵And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. (1 John 2:25)

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1 John 3:2‑3• ²Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
³And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (1 John 3:2‑3)

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Jude 21• ²¹Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (Jude 21)

eternal.

Matt. 25:46• ⁴⁶And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Matt. 25:46)

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Mark 10:17,30• ¹⁷And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
³⁰But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. (Mark 10:17,30)

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John 3:15‑16• ¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:15‑16)

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John 6:54• ⁵⁴Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:54)

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John 10:28• ²⁸And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:28)

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John 17:2• ²As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. (John 17:2)

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Rom. 5:21• ²¹That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:21)

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Rom. 6:23• ²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)

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1 Tim. 6:12,19• ¹²Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
¹⁹Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. (1 Tim. 6:12,19)

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1 John 5:11‑13,20• ¹¹And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
¹²He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
¹³These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
²⁰And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. (1 John 5:11‑13,20)

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Num. 23:19• ¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Num. 23:19)

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1 Sam. 15:29• ²⁹And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. (1 Sam. 15:29)

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1 Thess. 2:15• ¹⁵Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: (1 Thess. 2:15)

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2 Tim. 2:15• ¹⁵Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2 Tim. 2:15)

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Heb. 6:17‑18• ¹⁷Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
¹⁸That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (Heb. 6:17‑18)

promised.

2 Tim. 1:1,9• ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
⁹Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, (2 Tim. 1:1,9)

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Rev. 17:8• ⁸The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. (Rev. 17:8)

before.

Prov. 8:23‑31• ²³I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
²⁶While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
²⁷When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
²⁸When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
²⁹When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
³⁰Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
³¹Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. (Prov. 8:23‑31)

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Matt. 25:34• ³⁴Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (Matt. 25:34)

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John 17:24• ²⁴Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24)

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Acts 15:18• ¹⁸Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. (Acts 15:18)

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Rom. 16:25• ²⁵Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, (Rom. 16:25)

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1 Peter 1:20‑23• ²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter 1:20‑23)

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Rev. 13:8• ⁸And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:8)

• that hope of life eternal is realized now, and in a way altogether superior to the testimony of the prophets (Psa. 133, Dan. 12). For he proceeds to show that the promise which the christian actually enjoys, goes not merely beyond the prophets, or the human race on earth, but back into eternity. This was necessarily a promise within the Godhead. The God that knew no falsehood promised it before the times of the ages. (“On Titus 1:2-3” by W. Kelly)

• Here, however, the apostle does not dwell so much on heavenly association as on the wondrous fact that the life of the christian is life eternal, promised before the world began, outside of times or dispensations in God's dealings with man on the earth. It derives its character from Him Who is eternal, The Way and the Truth, the Head, center, expression, and object of all the purposes of God. This we have now, as we shall have it in glory with Himself. (“On Titus 1:2-3” by W. Kelly)

• It was not a development of Judaism, but the revelation of a life and of a promise of life which subsisted (that is, in Christ, the object of the divine counsels) before the world was. (“Titus 1” by J.N. Darby)

• That which formed the hope of this faith was not earthly prosperity, a numerous posterity, the earthly blessing of a people whom God acknowledged as His own. It was life eternal, promised of God in Christ before the world was, outside the world. (“Titus 1” by J.N. Darby)

• “Promised before the world began” is a remarkable and important expression. One is admitted into the thoughts of God before the existence of this changing and mingled scene, which bears witness of the frailty and sin of the creature-of the patience of God, and His ways in grace and in government. (“Titus 1” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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ind the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

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Epi. the condition under which the apostolic mission exists.

W. Kelly Translation

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upon hope of life eternal which God that cannot lie promised before the times of the agesa,

WK Translation Notes

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Or, "times everlasting." This is a phrase peculiar in itself and difficult to transfuse well and truly into English. "Eternal" is clear, as said of God, life, punishment of sin, etc. But in combination with "times" it appears harsh, as in {vi 28362}{/vi}, and still more where it is preceded by "before" as in {vi 29819}{/vi} and here. Perhaps indeed "times everlasting" might be admissible; for although the KJV uses "eternal" and "everlasting" interchangeably, the latter is not necessarily so absolute as the former. We might say "before times everlasting" but hardly "before times eternal," and for more reasons than one. It is unfounded to conceive a difference of sense between its use in {vi 29889}{/vi} and {vi 29895}{/vi}.