Revelation 16:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Because they have poured out the blood of Your people (the saints) and the prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. Such is their due [they deserve it]! [Ps. 79:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: they are worthy.

Common English Bible

⁶ They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve it!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For they have shed the blood of the Saints and the Prophets, and so you have given them blood to drink. For they deserve this."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Revelation 16:6 Cross References

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

Exodus 21:24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Exodus 7:17

Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord.” See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 26:11

Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

Lamentations 4:13

It was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Ezekiel 32:6

I will drench the land with your flowing blood up to the mountains, and the watercourses will be filled with you.

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

Luke 12:48

But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Revelation 11:18

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.”

Revelation 13:10

If you are to be taken captive, into captivity you go; if you kill with the sword, with the sword you must be killed. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

Revelation 13:15

and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast could even speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Revelation 18:24

And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”

Revelation 19:2

for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”