Revelation 22:14 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁴ Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City!

²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?' ²³ Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.' ²⁴ Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on rock. ²⁶ And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, and down it fell — with a mighty crash."

³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them. ³⁸ Whether he comes in the second or the third watch of the night and finds them thus alert, blessed are they!

¹² Are you a greater man than Jacob, our ancestor? He gave us this well, and he drank from it, with his sons and his cattle."

⁷ so he said to them again, "Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep;

⁹ (I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commands,

²¹ He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him." ²² "Lord," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "why is it that you are to appear to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love. ¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete. ¹² This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that. ¹⁴ You are my friends — if you do what I command you;

¹⁹ Circumcision counts for nothing, uncircumcision counts for nothing; obedience to God's commands is everything.

⁹ But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

⁵ Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?

⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love.

³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

²³ Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do; ²⁴ he who obeys his commands remains within him — and He remains within him. And this is how we may be sure he remains within us, by means of the Spirit he has given us.

³ (for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹² it has a huge, high wall with twelve gates, twelve angels at the twelve gates, and names inscribed thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,

²⁷ Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

² through the streets of the City; on both sides of the river grew the tree of Life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit; and the leaves served to heal the nations.

⁷ Lo, I am coming very soon; blessed is he who lays to heart the words of the prophecy of this book!"