Add parallel Print Page Options

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 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.

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 2:27 Psalm 2:9