Revelation 7:3

New American Bible - revised edition

“Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:13

But for you the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thereby, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you.

Exodus 12:23

For when the Lord goes by to strike down the Egyptians, seeing the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over that door and not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you down.

Isaiah 27:8

Driving out and expelling, he struggled against it, carrying it off with his cruel wind on a day of storm.

Isaiah 54:17

Every weapon fashioned against you shall fail; every tongue that brings you to trial you shall prove false. This is the lot of the servants of the Lord, their vindication from me—oracle of the Lord.

Isaiah 6:13

If there remain a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. Holy offspring is the trunk.

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: As when the juice is pressed from a cluster, and someone says, “Do not destroy it, for there is still good in it,” So will I do for the sake of my servants: I will not destroy them all.

Ezekiel 9:4

and the Lord said to him: Pass through the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and mark an X on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the abominations practiced within it.

Ezekiel 9:6

Old and young, male and female, women and children—wipe them out! But do not touch anyone marked with the X. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Daniel 3:17

If our God, whom we serve, can save us from the white-hot furnace and from your hands, O king, may he save us!

Daniel 3:26

“Blessed are you, and praiseworthy, O Lord, the God of our ancestors, and glorious forever is your name.

Daniel 6:16

But these men pressed the king. “Keep in mind, O king,” they said, “that under the law of the Medes and Persians every royal prohibition or decree is irrevocable.”

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who have observed his law; Seek justice, seek humility; Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

Malachi 3:18

Then you will again distinguish between the just and the wicked, Between the person who serves God, and the one who does not.

Matthew 24:22

And if those days had not been shortened, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect they will be shortened.

Matthew 24:31

And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. The Lesson of the Fig Tree.

John 12:26

Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.

John 3:33

Whoever does accept his testimony certifies that God is trustworthy.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.

Revelation 13:16

It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads,

Revelation 13:17

so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast’s name or the number that stood for its name.

Revelation 14:1

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

Revelation 14:9

A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice, “Anyone who worships the beast or its image, or accepts its mark on forehead or hand,

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.”

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw thrones; those who sat on them were entrusted with judgment. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image nor had accepted its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came to life and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 22:4

They will look upon his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Revelation 6:6

I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures. It said, “A ration of wheat costs a day’s pay, and three rations of barley cost a day’s pay. But do not damage the olive oil or the wine.”

Revelation 7:1

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on land or sea or against any tree.

Revelation 7:2

Then I saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea,

Revelation 9:4

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.