Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.
WEB
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
YLT
and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'
DBT
and made them to ourGod kings and priests; and they shall reign over the earth.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both