Revelation 14:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And they sang a new song before the throne [of God] and before the four living creatures and before the elders [of the heavenly Sanhedrin]. No one could learn [to sing] that song except the 144,000 who had been ransomed (purchased, redeemed) from the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, even they that had been purchased out of the earth.

Common English Bible

³ They sing a new song in front of the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And they were singing what seemed like a new canticle before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one was able to recite the canticle, except those one hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the ancients; and no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand, who were purchased from the earth.

Revelation 14:3 Cross References

Psalm 144:9

I will sing a new song to thee, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to thee,

Psalm 149:1

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful!

Psalm 25:14

The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

Psalm 33:3

Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

Psalm 40:3

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.

Psalm 96:1

O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth!

Psalm 98:1

O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and wonderful are thy deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are thy ways, O King of the ages!

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.’

Revelation 5:9

and they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy art thou to take the scroll and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and by thy blood didst ransom men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

Revelation 7:4

And I heard the number of the sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons of Israel,