Revelation 16:6

New American Bible - revised edition

For they have shed the blood of the holy ones and the prophets, and you [have] given them blood to drink; it is what they deserve.”

Cross References

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.

Exodus 21:24

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

Exodus 7:17

Thus says the Lord: This is how you will know that I am the Lord. With the staff here in my hand, I will strike the water in the Nile and it will be changed into blood.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as though with new wine. All flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your savior, your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 26:11

The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “Sentence this man to death! He has prophesied against this city! You heard it 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 a death sentence; it is in the name of the Lord, our God, that he speaks to us.”

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Ezekiel 32:6

I will drench the land, pouring out your blood on the mountain; filling up the ravines with you.

Matthew 7:2

For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.

Luke 12:48

and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more. Jesus: A Cause of Division.

Hebrews 10:29

Do you not think that a much worse punishment is due the one who has contempt for the Son of God, considers unclean the covenant-blood by which he was consecrated, and insults the spirit of grace?

Revelation 11:18

The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to recompense your servants, the prophets, and the holy ones and those who fear your name, the small and the great alike, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Revelation 13:10

Anyone destined for captivity goes into captivity. Anyone destined to be slain by the sword shall be slain by the sword. Such is the faithful endurance of the holy ones. The Second Beast.

Revelation 13:15

It was then permitted to breathe life into the beast’s image, so that the beast’s image could speak and [could] have anyone who did not worship it put to death.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, heaven, you holy ones, apostles, and prophets. For God has judged your case against her.”

Revelation 18:24

In her was found the blood of prophets and holy ones and all who have been slain on the earth.”

Revelation 19:2

for true and just are his judgments. He has condemned the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her harlotry. He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”