Revelation 7 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds from blowing on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. ² And I saw another angel rise up from the east, with the seal of the living God; he shouted aloud to the four angels who were allowed to injure the earth and sea, ³ "Do no harm to earth or sea or trees, until we seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads." ⁴ And I heard what was the number of the sealed — a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel, ⁵ twelve thousand sealed from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben, ⁶ [Relocated to follow vs 8] twelve thousand from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand sealed from the tribe of Manasseh. ⁷ twelve thousand from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand from the tribe of Issachar, ⁸ twelve thousand from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad, ⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands; ¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice, "Saved by our God who is seated on the throne, and by the Lamb!" ¹¹ And all the angels surrounded the throne and the Presbyters and the four living Creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne, worshipping God ¹² and crying, "Even so! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be to our God for ever and ever: Amen!" ¹³ Then one of the Presbyters addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clad in white robes? where have they come from?" 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. ¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them. ¹⁶ Never again will they hunger, never again will they thirst, never shall the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat;" ¹⁷ for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

²⁶ He said to them, "Why are you afraid? How little you trust God!" Then he got up and checked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. ²⁷ Men marvelled at this; they said, "What sort of man is this? the very winds and sea obey him!"

³¹ He will despatch his angels with a loud trumpet call to muster his elect from the four winds, from the verge of heaven to the verge of earth.

²⁷ Then he will despatch his angels and muster the elect from the four winds, from the verge of earth to the verge of heaven.

¹ After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this." ² At once I found myself rapt in the Spirit; and lo a Throne stood in heaven with One seated on the throne — ³ the seated One resembled in appearance jasper and sardius — and round the throne a rainbow resembling emerald in appearance; ⁴ also round the throne four and twenty thrones, and on these thrones four and twenty Presbyters seated, who were clad in white raiment with golden crowns upon their heads. ⁵ From the throne issue flashes of lightning and loud blasts and peals of thunder. And in front of the throne seven torches of fire burn (they are the seven Spirits of God); ⁶ also in front of the throne there is like a sea of glass, resembling crystal. And on each side of the throne, all round it, four living Creatures full of eyes inside and outside;

⁶ and I heard like a voice in the midst of the four living Creatures saying, "A shilling for a quart of wheat, a shilling for three quarts of barley; but harm not oil and wine!"

³ "Do no harm to earth or sea or trees, until we seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads."

⁴ but they were told not to harm the grass on earth nor any green thing nor any tree, only such human beings as had not the seal of God upon their foreheads;

¹⁴ telling the sixth angel with the trumpet, "Let loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

²⁷ Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

³⁰ At the close of forty years an angel [of the Lord] appeared to him in the flames of a burning thorn-bush, in the desert of mount Sinai. ³¹ When Moses saw this, he marvelled at the sight; and as he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said, ³² 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

²² who stamped me with his seal and gave me the Spirit as a pledge in my heart.

¹³ You also have heard the message of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, and in him you also by your faith have been stamped with the seal of the long-promised holy Spirit

³⁰ And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

⁹ People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

¹⁹ But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'

²² You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

³ Blessed is he who reads aloud, blessed they who hear the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time is near.

² And I saw a strong angel exclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the scroll, to break the seals of it?"

³ "Do no harm to earth or sea or trees, until we seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads." ⁴ And I heard what was the number of the sealed — a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel, ⁵ twelve thousand sealed from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben, ⁶ [Relocated to follow vs 8] twelve thousand from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand sealed from the tribe of Manasseh. ⁷ twelve thousand from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand from the tribe of Issachar, ⁸ twelve thousand from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad,

³ And another angel went and stood at the altar with a golden censer; he was given abundant incense, to be laid with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar in front of the throne;

⁷ The first blew, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, falling on the earth; a third of the earth was burnt up, a third of the trees were burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up. ⁸ The second angel blew, and what looked like a huge mountain on fire was hurled into the sea; a third of the sea turned blood, ⁹ a third of the creatures in the sea — the living creatures — perished, and a third of the ships were destroyed. ¹⁰ The third angel blew, and a huge star blazing like a torch dropped out of the sky, dropped on a third of the rivers and on the fountains ¹¹ (the name of the star is Wormwood); a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died of the waters, because they had turned bitter. ¹² The fourth angel blew; and a stroke fell on a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so as to darken one third of them, withdrawing light from a third of the day and likewise of the night.

¹ Then I saw another strong angel descend from heaven; he was clad in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, his face like the sun, his feet like columns of fire,

⁴ After the seven thunders had spoken, I was going to write it down; but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, do not write it."

²² Had not those days been cut short, not a soul would be saved alive; however, for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

²⁶ If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

¹⁶ and he obliges all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves alike, to have a mark put upon their right hand or their forehead,

¹ Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on mount Sion, and along with him a hundred and forty-four thousand bearing his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads!

² True and just are his sentences of doom; he has doomed the great Harlot who destroyed earth with her vice, he has avenged on her the blood of his servants."

⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

²⁸ Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel.

³⁰ I assign you the right of eating and drinking at my table in my Realm and of sitting on thrones to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁷ a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king!

²⁷ And Isaiah exclaims, with regard to Israel, Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall be saved;

⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace. ⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.

¹ James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

¹⁶ And the number of the troops of their cavalry was two hundred millions (I heard what was their number).

³ they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living Creatures and the Presbyters, and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from earth.

¹ Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom. ² I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

³⁶ There was also a prophetess, Hannah the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher; she was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her girlhood

¹ Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

³⁶ From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

¹³ and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

²⁵ To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name; ¹⁰ or again, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his People; ¹¹ or again, Extol the Lord, all Gentiles, let all the peoples praise him; ¹² or again, as Isaiah says, Then shall the Scion of Jessai live, he who rises to rule the Gentiles; on him shall the Gentiles set their hope.

¹³ So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

¹² Thus a single man, though he was physically impotent, had issue in number like the stars in heaven, countless as the sand on the seashore.

⁴ Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to. ⁵ 'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

¹⁸ I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment to clothe you and prevent the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to rub on your eyes, that you may see.

⁴ also round the throne four and twenty thrones, and on these thrones four and twenty Presbyters seated, who were clad in white raiment with golden crowns upon their heads.

⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

¹¹ But they were each given a white robe, and told to remain quiet for a little longer, until their number was completed by their fellow-servants and their brothers who were to be killed like themselves.

¹³ Then one of the Presbyters addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clad in white robes? where have they come from?" 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. ¹⁵ For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

⁶ so shall all flesh see the saving power of God.'

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

³⁶ he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"

²² You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know — for salvation comes from the Jews.

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

² At once I found myself rapt in the Spirit; and lo a Throne stood in heaven with One seated on the throne — ³ the seated One resembled in appearance jasper and sardius — and round the throne a rainbow resembling emerald in appearance;

⁶ also in front of the throne there is like a sea of glass, resembling crystal. And on each side of the throne, all round it, four living Creatures full of eyes inside and outside;

⁹ And whenever the living Creatures render glory and honour and thanksgiving to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, ¹⁰ the four and twenty Presbyters fall down before him who is seated on the throne, worshipping him who lives for ever and ever, and casting their crowns before the throne, with the cry, ¹¹ "Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

⁷ and it went and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.

¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!" ¹⁴ "Amen," said the four living Creatures, and the Presbyters fell down and worshipped.

¹⁰ Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now it has come, the salvation and power, the reign of our God and the authority of his Christ! — for the Accuser of our brothers is thrown down, who accused them before God day and night.

¹ After that I heard what was like the shout of a great host in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! salvation and glory and power are our God's!

⁵ Then he who was seated on the throne said, "Lo, I make all things new." And he said, "Write this: 'these words are trustworthy and genuine.'"

³ None who is accursed will be there; but the throne of God and the Lamb will be within it, his servants will serve and worship him,

¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

²³ that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

⁶ And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'

¹⁰ the four and twenty Presbyters fall down before him who is seated on the throne, worshipping him who lives for ever and ever, and casting their crowns before the throne, with the cry,

¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne and of the living Creatures and of the Presbyters, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, ¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing." ¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!"

¹⁶ Then the four and twenty Presbyters who are seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshipped God,

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art holy. Yea, all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are disclosed."

⁴ Then the four and twenty Presbyters and the four living Creatures fell down and worshipped God who is seated on the throne, crying, "So be it, hallelujah!" ⁵ And a voice came from the throne, "Extol our God, all ye his servants, ye who reverence him, low and high!" ⁶ Then I heard a cry like the shout of a great host and the sound of many waves and the roar of heavy thunder — "Hallelujah! now the Lord our God almighty reigns!

⁹ But he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers the prophets, who lay to heart the words of this book. Worship God."

¹³ and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'

¹⁵ It is all in your interests, so that the more grace abounds, the more thanksgiving may rise and redound to the glory of God.

¹¹ you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God; ¹² for the service rendered by this fund does more than supply the wants of the saints, it overflows with many a cry of thanks to God.

⁷ fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.

¹⁷ Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

²⁵ to the only God, our saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and for all time: Amen.

¹⁸ I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing."

⁴ Then the four and twenty Presbyters and the four living Creatures fell down and worshipped God who is seated on the throne, crying, "So be it, hallelujah!"

²⁸ So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

⁵ but one of the Presbyters told me, "Weep not; lo, the Lion of Judah's tribe, the Scion of David, he has won the power of opening the scroll and its seven seals."

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

²¹ for there will be sore misery then, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now — no and never shall be.

⁸ Said Peter, "You will never wash my feet, never!" "Unless I wash you," Jesus replied, "you will not share my lot." ⁹ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "then wash not only my feet but my hands and head." ¹⁰ Jesus said, "He who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed; he is clean all over. And you are clean — but not all of you" ¹¹ (he knew the traitor; that was why he said, "You are not all clean"). ¹² Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe, he lay down again. "Do you know," he said to them, "what I have been doing to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am. ¹⁴ Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

³ Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

²⁶ to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, ²⁷ in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

⁴ So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

¹² and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

⁹ I know your distress and your poverty (but you are rich!): I know how you are being slandered by those who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but a mere synagogue of Satan!).

⁹ And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore; ¹⁰ and they cried aloud, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long wilt thou refrain from charging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on earth?" ¹¹ But they were each given a white robe, and told to remain quiet for a little longer, until their number was completed by their fellow-servants and their brothers who were to be killed like themselves.

¹¹ But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

² And I saw what was like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and, standing beside the sea of glass, those who came off conquerors from the Beast and his statue and the cipher of his name; they had harps of God

⁶ Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.

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!

¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality.

¹⁶ Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?

¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

¹ The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹⁹ Then the temple of God in heaven was thrown open, and the ark of his covenant was seen inside his temple; there were flashes of lightning, loud blasts, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a hailstorm.

³ they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living Creatures and the Presbyters, and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been ransomed from earth. ⁴ They have not been defiled by intercourse with women — they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb. ⁵ And on their lips no lie was ever detected; they are stainless.

¹⁰ and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying, "Lo, God's dwelling-place is with men, with men will he dwell; they shall be his people, and God will himself be with them: ⁴ he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more — no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

⁵ Night there shall be none; they need no lamp or sun to shine upon them, for the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign for ever and ever.

⁶ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

⁶ but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root.

²¹ he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

⁶ but when the sun rose it got scorched and withered away, because it had no root;

¹⁷ but they have no root in themselves, they do not last; the next thing is that when the word brings trouble or persecution, they are at once repelled.

⁵³ he has satisfied the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

²¹ Blessed are you who hunger to-day! you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep to-day! you shall laugh.

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

¹¹ up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.

⁴ he will wipe every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more — no more wailing or crying or pain, for the first things have passed away."

⁶ And you Bethlehem, in Judah's land, You are not least among the rulers of Judah: For a ruler will come from you, Who will shepherd Israel my people."

¹¹ "Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw water with, and it is a deep well; where do you get your 'living' water?

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink; ³⁸ he who believes in me — out of his body, as scripture says, streams of living water will flow"

¹¹ I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me

¹⁵ Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus. ¹⁶ Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus. ¹⁷ For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

²⁸ Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

² be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,

¹¹ "Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."

⁶ Then I noticed a Lamb standing in the midst of the throne and the four living Creatures and the Presbyters; it seemed to have been slain, but it had seven horns and seven eyes (they are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth),

⁶ Then he said, "All is over! I am the alpha and the omega, the First and the Last. I will let the thirsty drink of the fountain of the water of Life without price.

¹ Then he showed me the river of the water of Life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb