Revelation 2:25-27
GOD’S WORD Translation
25 Just hold on to what you have until I come. 26 I have received authority from my Father.[a] I will give authority over the nations to everyone who wins the victory and continues to do what I want until the end. 27 Those people will rule the nations with iron scepters and shatter them like pottery.
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- 2:26 The first part of verse 28 (in Greek) has been moved to the beginning of verse 26 to express the complex Greek sentence structure more clearly in English.
Revelation 2:25-27
New International Version
25 except to hold on to what you have(A) until I come.’(B)
26 To the one who is victorious(C) and does my will to the end,(D) I will give authority over the nations(E)— 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter(F) and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[a](G)—just as I have received authority from my Father.
Footnotes
- Revelation 2:27 Psalm 2:9
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