But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth.
Revelation 13:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Also, it was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them. It was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He was further permitted to wage war on God's holy people (the saints) and to overcome them. And power was given him to extend his authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation, [Dan. 7:21, 25.] American Standard Version (1901) And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. Common English Bible It was also allowed to make war on the saints and to gain victory over them. It was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. Catholic Public Domain Version And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and people and language and nation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation. |
But this is why I have let you live: to show you my power and to make my name resound through all the earth.
Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!
“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.
“At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.
As I looked, that horn made war with the holy ones and was prevailing over them,
He shall speak words against the Most High, shall wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and shall attempt to change the ritual calendar and the law, and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times, and half a time.
And the devil said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.
Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
Then they said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”
The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for judging the dead, for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints and all who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the bottomless pit will wage war on them and conquer them and kill them,
Then the dragon was angry with the woman and went off to wage war on the rest of her children, those who keep the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus.
And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;