Revelation 1:5

New English Translation

and from Jesus Christ – the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

Cross References

Psalm 51:2

Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!

Psalm 72:11

All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him.

Psalm 89:27

I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

Proverbs 14:5

A truthful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Isaiah 55:4

Look, I made him a witness to nations, a ruler and commander of nations.”

Daniel 2:2

The king issued an order to summon the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and wise men in order to explain his dreams to him. So they came and awaited the king’s instructions.

Daniel 7:14

To him was given ruling authority, honor, and sovereignty. All peoples, nations, and language groups were serving him. His authority is eternal and will not pass away. His kingdom will not be destroyed.

Leviticus 13:58

But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Zechariah 13:1

“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 28:18

Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

John 13:1

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

John 13:34

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 15:9

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

John 18:37

Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

John 3:11

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

John 3:16

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:32

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

Acts 20:28

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Acts 26:23

that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

Romans 3:25

God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

Ephesians 5:2

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deuteronomy 23:5

But the Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the Lord your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 7:8

Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the Lord brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,

1 Timothy 6:15

– whose appearing the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at the right time.

Hebrews 10:29

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

1 Peter 1:19

but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 4:10

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.

Revelation 17:14

They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.”

Revelation 19:11

Then I saw heaven opened and here came a white horse! The one riding it was called “Faithful” and “True,” and with justice he judges and goes to war.

Revelation 19:16

He has a name written on his clothing and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”

Revelation 2:13

‘I know where you live – where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

Revelation 3:14

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation:

Revelation 7:14

So I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!