Revelation 16:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ For men have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink. It is their due!”

More versions

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 would not 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: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, 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 have I smitten your children, they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 26:11

Then the priests and the prophets said to the princes 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 princes 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

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

Ezekiel 32:6

I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood; and the watercourses will be full of you.

Matthew 7:2

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

Luke 12:48

But he who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, shall receive a light beating. Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the more.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Revelation 11:18

The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

Revelation 13:10

If any one is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if any one slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. 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 should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”

Revelation 18:24

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth.”

Revelation 19:2

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