Verse 5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 89:27 : 27 I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.
  • Col 1:18 : 18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first,
  • Rev 3:14 : 14 `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;
  • Rev 17:14 : 14 these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'
  • Rev 19:16 : 16 and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'
  • Acts 26:23 : 23 that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say `it'; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
  • Isa 55:4 : 4 Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.
  • Ps 72:11 : 11 And all kings do bow themselves to him, All nations do serve him,
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
  • 1 John 5:7-9 : 7 because three are who are testifying `in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these -- the three -- are one; 8 and three are who are testifying in the earth', the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one. 9 If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son. 10 He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;
  • 1 Tim 6:15 : 15 which in His own times He shall shew -- the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • 1 Cor 15:20-23 : 20 And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became, 21 for since through man `is' the death, also through man `is' a rising again of the dead, 22 for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive, 23 and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
  • Dan 7:14 : 14 And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion `is' a dominion age-during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.
  • Matt 28:18 : 18 And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become `those' of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'
  • John 3:11 : 11 `Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.
  • Ps 89:36-37 : 36 His seed is to the age, And his throne `is' as the sun before Me, 37 As the moon it is established -- to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.
  • Deut 7:8 : 8 but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • John 15:9 : 9 According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;
  • John 8:14-16 : 14 Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go. 15 `Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one, 16 and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;
  • John 13:1 : 1 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who `are' in the world -- to the end he loved them.
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
  • Eph 1:20-22 : 20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places', 21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; 22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,
  • Rom 8:37 : 37 but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
  • 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • Eph 5:25-27 : 25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying, 27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
  • John 13:8-9 : 8 Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;' 9 Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.' 10 Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'
  • John 13:34 : 34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
  • Deut 23:5 : 5 and Jehovah thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and Jehovah thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because Jehovah thy God hath loved thee;
  • John 3:32 : 32 `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;
  • Prov 8:15-16 : 15 By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness, 16 By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.