Revelation 5:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁰ and you made them into a kingdom and a priesthood for [serving] our God, and they will rule on the earth.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And You have made them a kingdom (royal race) and priests to our God, and they shall reign [as kings] over the earth! [Exod. 19:6; Isa. 61:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will rule on earth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And you have made us into a kingdom and into priests for our God, and we shall reign over the earth."

Revelation 5:10 Cross References

Revelation 1:6

And He made us to be a kingdom [See 5:10] and priests [See I Pet. 2:5, 9] for [serving] His God and Father. May it be so.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones, with individuals sitting on them who had been given [authority] to judge. And I [also] saw the souls of those who had been decapitated because they had testified about Jesus and [had proclaimed] the message of God. [They are] the ones who had refused to worship the beast or his statue, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And these ones lived again and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:6

The person who shares in this first resurrection is blessed and holy [i.e., for being so dedicated to God]. The second death does not have power over these people, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will rule with Him for the thousand years.

Revelation 22:5

And it will never be nighttime there anymore; they will not need the light of a lamp nor of the sun, for the Lord will give them light. And they [i.e., God’s servants] will rule [with Christ, See 20:4] forever and ever.

Revelation 3:21

The person who has victory [in the Christian life], I will grant him [the privilege of] sitting down with me on my throne, as I also had victory and sat down with my Father on His throne.