Revelation 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

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  • Ps 89:27 : 27 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:
  • Rev 17:14 : 14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
  • Rev 19:16 : 16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
  • Acts 26:23 : 23 how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
  • Isa 55:4 : 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.
  • Ps 72:11 : 11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • 1 John 5:7-9 : 7 For there are three who testify: 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God's testimony which he has testified concerning his Son. 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn't believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
  • 1 Tim 6:15 : 15 which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • 1 Cor 15:20-23 : 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. 21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
  • Dan 7:14 : 14 There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
  • Matt 28:18 : 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"
  • John 3:11 : 11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Ps 89:36-37 : 36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. 37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.
  • Deut 7:8 : 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • John 15:9 : 9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
  • John 8:14-16 : 14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going. 15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Eph 1:20-22 : 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
  • Rom 8:37 : 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
  • 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 5:25-27 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
  • John 13:8-9 : 8 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me." 9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" 10 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."
  • John 13:34 : 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
  • Deut 23:5 : 5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
  • John 3:32 : 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
  • Prov 8:15-16 : 15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. 16 By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.

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