Revelation 1:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!

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  • Luke 11:28 : 28 And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping `it'!'
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is' our salvation than when we did believe;
  • Rev 22:10 : 10 And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.
  • Rev 22:12 : 12 And lo, I come quickly, and my reward `is' with me, to render to each as his work shall be;
  • Jas 5:8-9 : 8 be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh; 9 murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;
  • Rev 22:6-7 : 6 And he said to me, `These words `are' stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly: 7 Lo, I come quickly; happy `is' he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.'
  • Rev 22:20 : 20 he saith -- who is testifying these things -- `Yes, I come quickly!' Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus!
  • Dan 12:12-13 : 12 O the blessedness of him who is waiting earnestly, and doth come to the days, a thousand, three hundred, thirty and five. 13 And thou, go on to the end, then thou dost rest, and dost stand in thy lot at the end of the days.'

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    6And he said to me, `These words `are' stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:

    7Lo, I come quickly; happy `is' he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.'

    8And I, John, am he who is seeing these things and hearing, and when I heard and beheld, I fell down to bow before the feet of the messenger who is shewing me these things;

    9and he saith to me, `See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'

    10And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;

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    10I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,

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