Revelation 14:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² This calls for the endurance of the saints, who keep God’s commandments and keep faith with Jesus.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Favored are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they can rest from their labors, because their deeds follow them.”

Two harvests of the earth

¹⁴ Then I looked, and there was a white cloud. On the cloud was seated someone who looked like the Human One.^[a] He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.