Revelation 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she has no desire to repent of her immorality [symbolic of idolatry] and refuses to do so.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

Common English Bible

²¹ I gave her time to change her heart and life, but she refuses to change her life of prostitution.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And I gave her a time, so that she might do penance, but she is not willing to repent from her fornication.

Revelation 2:21 Cross References

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

Revelation 16:11

and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, and they did not repent of their deeds.

Revelation 16:9

they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

2 Peter 3:15

and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

1 Peter 3:20

who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.

Romans 9:22

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,