What Does Mark 13:13 Mean?
And you will be hated by all for my nature's sake; but whoever bears up under to the end, this one will be delivered.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.THE KEY
The verse holds two movements together: remaining under hatred until the end and being brought through it.
THE MEANING
The reader who bears Jesus’ name, his identity and nature, is hated by all; the hostility stays visible, not softened. The one who remains through its full course is promised deliverance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being hated means Jesus has abandoned the one who bears his name; here, hatred and the promise of deliverance stand together.
THE ROOT
ὑπομείνας
hypomeinas
GROWS FROM
μένω (menō), with ὑπό (hypo-) prefixed
Remain, stay; with the prefix, remain under or stay beneath.
“bears up under” in this verse is hypomeinas. The word translated endure carries the picture of remaining beneath pressure. It does not make the hatred harmless; it names staying through it until its full course.
ALSO GROWS
menō: Remain, stay, abide.
μένω
This is the core verb inside the word translated endure: its center is continuing to remain.
hypomonē: Steadfast endurance, perseverance.
ὑπομονή
This noun from the same compound names the sustained remaining that the verse describes.
ὄνομα
onoma
GROWS FROM
ὀνοματ-
onomat-
Name, designation; the identity represented by a name.
“nature's” in this verse is onoma. Here, hatred comes because the reader is identified with Jesus’ name. The name carries the nature and identity it represents, so the hostility reaches the person who bears that identity, not merely a spoken word.
ALSO GROWS
onomazō: Name, call by name.
ὀνομάζω
The act of naming makes an identity known; in this verse, that identity draws hostility.
onomastos: Named, renowned.
ὀνομαστός
This related form shows a name as the identity by which someone is known, the very association named in the verse.
σωθήσεται
sōthēsetai
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
Deliver, rescue, bring safely through.
The KJV’s saved also carries the concrete sense of being delivered. Beside remaining under pressure, the verse places the promise of being brought through it.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: Deliverance, rescue.
σωτηρία
This noun names the deliverance promised to the one who remains.
sōtēr: Deliverer, rescuer.
σωτήρ
This related word names the one who brings another through danger.
THE PATTERN
Hostility tied to the named one remains real, yet affliction does not cancel the promise of being held or delivered through it.
Many are the evils against the aligned one, but the LORD snatches him out of them all.Remember the word that I said to you. A servant is not greater than his lord. If they pursued me, they will also pursue you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.If you are reviled in the nature of the Anointed One, flourishing are you, for the breath of weight and of God rests upon you. On their side he is spoken against, but on your side he is given weight.THE THREAD
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it stays in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.Mark’s word for endure, ὑπομένω (hypomenō, remain under), is built on μένω (menō, remain), the same verb translated abide here. The shared root presents endurance as continued remaining in connection, even while hatred presses against the reader.
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