Revelation 16:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They poured out the blood of your people and your prophets. So you gave them blood to drink, as they deserve!”

Cross References

Isaiah 49:26

He will make those cruel people dine on their own flesh and get drunk from drinking their own blood. Then everyone will know that the LORD is our Saviour; the powerful God of Israel has rescued his people.

Revelation 11:18

When the nations got angry, you became angry too! Now the time has come for the dead to be judged. It is time for you to reward your servants the prophets and all your people who honour your name, no matter who they are. It is time to destroy everyone who has destroyed the earth.”

Revelation 18:24

On the streets of Babylon is found the blood of God's people and of his prophets, and everyone else.”

Revelation 13:15

It was allowed to put breath into the idol, so that it could speak. Everyone who refused to worship the idol of the beast was put to death.

2 Kings 24:4

and caused many innocent people to die. The LORD would not forgive this.

Revelation 19:2

because his judgments are honest and fair. That filthy prostitute ruined the earth with shameful deeds. But God has judged her and made her pay the price for murdering his servants.”

Revelation 13:10

If you are doomed to be captured, you will be captured. If you are doomed to be killed by a sword, you will be killed by a sword. This means that God's people must learn to endure and be faithful!

Lamentations 4:13

Jerusalem was punished because her prophets and her priests had sinned and caused the death of innocent victims.

Revelation 18:20

The heavens should be happy with God's people and apostles and prophets. God has punished her for them.”

Hebrews 10:29

But it is much worse to dishonour God's Son and to disgrace the blood of the promise that made us holy. And it is just as bad to insult the Holy Spirit, who shows us mercy.

Matthew 7:2

God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.

Jeremiah 26:16

The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets, “Since Jeremiah only told us what the LORD our God had said, we don't think he deserves to die.”

Jeremiah 26:11

While they listened, the priests and the prophets said to the crowd, “All of you have heard Jeremiah prophesy that Jerusalem will be destroyed. He deserves the death penalty.”

Jeremiah 2:30

I tried punishing you, but you refused to come back to me, and like fierce lions you killed my prophets.

Luke 12:48

But servants who don't know what their master wants them to do will not be beaten so hard for doing wrong. If God has been generous with you, he will expect you to serve him well. But if he has been more than generous, he will expect you to serve him even better.

Exodus 7:17

“The LORD is going to do something to show you that he really is the LORD. I will strike the Nile with this stick, and the water will turn into blood.

Exodus 21:24

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

Ezekiel 32:6

and your blood will flow throughout the land and fill up the streams.