Matthew 26:38
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.””
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“Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul--unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 26:38 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- Psalms 88:1O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
- Psalms 88:14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- Song of Solomon 5:3I have taken off my robe— must I put it back on? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again?
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
- Matthew 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
- Matthew 26:40Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
- John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
- Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- 2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Galatians 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 Peter 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 1 Peter 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
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