World English Bible
Revelation 16:6
“For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
Revelation 16:6 in the King James Version
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.Read Revelation 16:6 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Revelation 16
The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.
I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.
The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
Cross references for Revelation 16:6
- Isaiah 49:26
I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- Revelation 6:10-11
They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a w...
- Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to des...
- Luke 11:49-50
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this g...
- Revelation 18:24
In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.
- Matthew 23:30-37
and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. Fill up, then, the me...
- 2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Revelation 17:6-7
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement. The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of th...
- Revelation 13:15
It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn't worship the image of the beast to be killed.
- Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
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