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Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

KJV

ὅτι αἵματα ἁγίων καὶ προφητῶν ἐξέχεαν, καὶ αἷμα αὐτοῖς ἔδωκας πεῖν· ἄξιοί εἰσιν.

Greek NT

quia sanguinem sanctorum et prophetarum effuderunt, et sanguinem eis dedisti bibere : digni enim sunt.

Vulgate

for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.

ASV

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πίνω
pino
verb · 73×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
ἄξιος
axios
adjective · 41×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἐκχέω
ekcheo
verb · 27×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: δέδωκας | WH/Treg/NIV: δέδωκας | RP: ἔδωκας
  • δέδωκαςSBLGNT
  • δέδωκαςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἔδωκαςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 15:33 — And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
  • 2Kgs 10:25 — And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with
  • 2Kgs 24:4 — And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
  • 2Tim 3:3 — Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
  • Exod 21:24 — Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
  • Isa 26:21 — For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
  • Isa 49:26 — And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeeme
  • Isa 49:26 — And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeeme
  • Jer 26:15 — But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me un
  • Jer 50:29 — Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do
  • Lam 4:13 — For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
  • Luke 11:49 — Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
  • Matt 14:11 — And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
  • Matt 21:35 — And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
  • Matt 23:30 — And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
  • Matt 26:52 — Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
  • Ps 7:13 — He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
  • Ps 9:12 — When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
  • Ps 109:17 — As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
  • Rev 6:10 — And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
  • Rev 9:21 — Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
  • Rev 11:18 — And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them
  • Rev 13:10 — He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  • Rev 13:10 — He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
  • Rev 13:15 — And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
  • Rev 17:6 — And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
  • Rev 17:6 — And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
  • Rev 18:24 — And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
  • Rev 18:24 — And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
  • Rev 19:2 — For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.