Revelation 22:14

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“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.”

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BSBPD

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Revelation 22:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 106:3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
  2. Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
  3. Psalms 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
  4. Isaiah 56:1This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
  5. Daniel 12:12Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
  6. Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
  7. Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
  8. John 4:12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
  9. John 10:7So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
  10. John 10:9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
  11. John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
  12. John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
  13. John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
  14. John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
  15. 1 Corinthians 7:19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
  16. 1 Corinthians 8:9Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
  17. 1 Corinthians 9:5Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
  18. Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
  19. 1 John 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
  20. 1 John 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
  21. 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
  22. Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
  23. Revelation 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  24. Revelation 21:12The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.

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