Revelation 7:3

New Century Version

He said to them, “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we mark with a sign the foreheads of the people who serve our God.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:13

But the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. Nothing terrible will hurt you when I punish the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:23

When the Lord goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the sides and tops of the doorframes, and he will pass over that house. He will not let the one who brings death come into your houses and kill you.

Isaiah 27:8

He will settle his argument with Israel by sending it far away. Like a hot desert wind, he will drive it away.

Isaiah 54:17

So no weapon that is used against you will defeat you. You will show that those who speak against you are wrong. These are the good things my servants receive. Their victory comes from me,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 6:13

One-tenth of the people will be left in the land, but it will be destroyed again. These people will be like an oak tree whose stump is left when the tree is chopped down. The people who remain will be like a stump that will sprout again.”

Isaiah 65:8

This is what the Lord says: “When there is juice left in the grapes, people do not destroy them, because they know there is good left in them. So I will do the same thing to my servants— I will not completely destroy them.

Ezekiel 9:4

He said to the man, “Go through Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who groan and cry about all the hateful things being done among them.”

Ezekiel 9:6

Kill and destroy old men, young men and women, little children, and older women, but don’t touch any who have the mark on them. Start at my Temple.” So they started with the elders who were in front of the Temple.

Daniel 3:17

If you throw us into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from the furnace. He will save us from your power, O king.

Daniel 3:26

Then Nebuchadnezzar went to the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, come out! Servants of the Most High God, come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire.

Daniel 6:16

So King Darius gave the order, and Daniel was brought in and thrown into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May the God you serve all the time save you!”

Zephaniah 2:3

Come to the Lord, all you who are not proud, who obey his laws. Do what is right. Learn to be humble. Maybe you will escape on the day the Lord shows his anger.

Malachi 3:18

You will again see the difference between good and evil people, between those who serve God and those who don’t.

Matthew 24:22

God has decided to make that terrible time short. Otherwise, no one would go on living. But God will make that time short to help the people he has chosen.

Matthew 24:31

He will use a loud trumpet to send his angels all around the earth, and they will gather his chosen people from every part of the world.

John 12:26

Whoever serves me must follow me. Then my servant will be with me everywhere I am. My Father will honor anyone who serves me.

John 3:33

Whoever accepts what he says has proven that God is true.

Romans 6:22

But now you are free from sin and have become slaves of God. This brings you a life that is only for God, and this gives you life forever.

Revelation 13:16

The second beast also forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on their right hand or on their forehead.

Revelation 13:17

No one could buy or sell without this mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion. With him were one hundred forty-four thousand people who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.

Revelation 14:9

Then a third angel followed the first two angels, saying in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his idol and gets the beast’s mark on the forehead or on the hand,

Revelation 19:2

because his judgments are true and right. He has punished the prostitute who made the earth evil with her sexual sin. He has paid her back for the death of his servants.”

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw some thrones and people sitting on them who had been given the power to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been killed because they were faithful to the message of Jesus and the message from God. They had not worshiped the beast or his idol, and they had not received the mark of the beast on their foreheads or on their hands. They came back to life and ruled with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 22:4

They will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads.

Revelation 6:6

Then I heard something that sounded like a voice coming from the middle of the four living creatures. The voice said, “A quart of wheat for a day’s pay, and three quarts of barley for a day’s pay, and do not damage the olive oil and wine!”

Revelation 7:1

After the vision of these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth. The angels were holding the four winds of the earth to keep them from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.

Revelation 7:2

Then I saw another angel coming up from the east who had the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels to whom God had given power to harm the earth and the sea.

Revelation 9:4

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