The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Revelation 22:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city. [Gen. 2:9; 3:22, 24.] American Standard Version (1901) Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. Common English Bible Favored are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right of access to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. Catholic Public Domain Version Blessed are those who wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb. So may they have a right to the tree of life; so may they enter through the gates into the City. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. |
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The Lord God said, ‘Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live for ever.’
and the Lord told Moses, ‘Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.
Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.’
Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters.
But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.
Don’t we have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife like the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas?
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure.
For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,
‘Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
The city had a massive high wall, with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates; the names of the twelve tribes of Israel’s sons were inscribed on the gates.
Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.
down the middle of the city’s main street. The tree of life was on each side of the river, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations,
‘Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.’
I said to him, ‘Sir, you know.’ Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.