Revelation 20:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.”
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“The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the rest of the dead did not live again till the thousand years may be finished; this <FI>is<Fi> the first rising again.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Revelation 20:5 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 37:2He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.
- Luke 14:14and you will be blessed. Since they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
- Romans 11:15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
- Philippians 3:11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
- Revelation 11:11But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.
- Revelation 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- Revelation 20:8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
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