英文圣经NIV版本-启示录Revelation

Revelation

1The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take

place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2who testifies to everything he saw-- that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

3Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and

take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

4John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is,

and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits

5before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead,

and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

6To

him

who

loves

us

and

has

freed

us

from

our

sins

by

his

blood,

and

has

made

us

to

be

a

kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father--to him be glory and power for ever and ever!

Amen.

7Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and

all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen.

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the Almighty.

9I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are

ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

10On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

11which

said:

on

a

scroll

what

you

see

and

send

it

to

the

seven

churches:

to

Ephesus,

Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

12I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden

lampstands,

13and among the lampstands was someone

to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.

14His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.

15His

feet

were

like

bronze

glowing

in

a

furnace,

and

his

voice

was

like

the

sound

of

rushing

waters.

16In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword.

His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

17When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said:

18I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys

of death and Hades.

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20The

mystery

of

the

seven

stars

that

you

saw

in

my

right

hand

and

of

the

seven

golden

lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands

are the seven churches.

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stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:

2I

know

your

deeds,

your

hard

work

and

your

perseverance.

I

know

that

you

cannot

tolerate

wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them

false.

3You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.

4Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

5Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If

you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

6But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I

will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

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Last, who died and came to life again.

9I know your afflictions and your poverty-yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say

they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

10Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in

prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of

death, and I will give you the crown of life.

11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not

be hurt at all by the second death.

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doubleedged sword.

13I know where you live- where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not

renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death

in your city-where Satan lives.

14Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching

of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by

committing sexual immorality.

15Likewise you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

16Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword

of my mouth.

17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I

will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on

it, known only to him who receives it.

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eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

19I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now

doing more than you did at first.

20Nevertheless,

I

have

this

against

you:

You

tolerate

that

woman

Jezebel,

who

calls

herself

a

prophetess.

By

her

teaching

she

misleads

my

servants

into

sexual

immorality

and

the

eating

of

food sacrificed to idols.

21I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

22So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her

suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.

23I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts

and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

24Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not

learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you):

25Only hold on to what you have until I come.

26To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations--

27'He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery' --

28just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.

29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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the

angel

of

the church

in

Sardis

write:

These

are

the

words

of

him

who

holds

the

seven

spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but

you are dead.

2Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete

in the sight of my God.

3Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not

wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.

4Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me,

dressed in white, for they are worthy.

5He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the

book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.

6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can

open.

8I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that

you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

9I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not,

but are liars--I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved

you.

10Since you have kept my

command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of

trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

11I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

12Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it.

I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem,

which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.

13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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true witness, the ruler of God's creation.

15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!

16So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

17You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that

you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes

to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.

20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will

come in and eat with him, and he with me.

21To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and

sat down with my Father on his throne.

22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

4After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had

first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said,

place after this.

2At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on

it.

3And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an

emerald, encircled the throne.

4Surrounding

the

throne

were

twenty-four

other

thrones,

and

seated

on

them

were

twenty-four

elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.

5From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings

and peals of thunder. Before the throne,

seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.

6Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

7In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in

front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had

a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.

8Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under

his wings. Day and night they never stop saying:

was, and is, and is to come.

9Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and

who lives for ever and ever,

10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives

for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

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things, and by your will they were created and have their being.

5Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and

sealed with seven seals.

2And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice,

open the scroll?

3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.

4I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.

5Then one of the elders said to me,

David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.

6Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled

by

the

four

living

creatures

and

the

elders.

He

had

seven

horns

and

seven

eyes,

which

are

the

seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

7He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

8And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before

the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the

prayers of the saints.

9And they sang a new song:

were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and

people and nation.

10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the

earth.

11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and

ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.

12In a loud voice they sang:

wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!

13Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all

that is in them, singing:

glory and power, for ever and ever!

14The four living creatures said,

6I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living

creatures say in a voice like thunder,

2I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown,

and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

3When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say,

4Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the

earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

5When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say,

there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.

6Then

I

heard

what

sounded

like

a

voice

among

the

four

living

creatures,

saying,

quart

of

wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil

and the wine!

7When

the

Lamb

opened

the

fourth

seal,

I

heard

the

voice

of

the

fourth

living

creature

say,

8I

looked,

and

there

before

me

was

a

pale

horse!

Its

rider

was

named

Death,

and

Hades

was

following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword,

famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

9When

he

opened

the

fifth

seal,

I

saw

under

the

altar

the

souls

of

those

who

had

been

slain

because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

10They called out in a loud voice,

inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?

11Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the

number

of

their

fellow

servants

and

brothers

who

were

to

be

killed

as

they

had

been

was

completed.

12I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like

sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

13and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong

wind.

14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its

place.

15Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and

every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

16They called to the mountains and the rocks,

sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

17For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?

7After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds

of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.

2Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called

out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:

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of our God.

4Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

5From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of

Gad 12,000,

6from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh

12,000,

7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, from the tribe of Benjamin

12,000.

9After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every

nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were

wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.

10And they cried out in a loud voice:

to the Lamb.

11All

the

angels

were

standing

around

the

throne

and

around

the

elders

and

the

four

living

creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

12saying:

to our God for ever and ever. Amen!

13Then one of the elders asked me,

from?

14I answered,

15And he said,

robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore,

God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent

over them.

16Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon them, nor

any scorching heat.

17For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of

living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

8When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

3Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense

to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.

4The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the

angel's hand.

5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and

there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

6Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was

hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up,

and all the green grass was burned up.

8The

second

angel

sounded

his

trumpet,

and

something

like

a

huge

mountain,

all

ablaze,

was

thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,

9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a

third of the rivers and on the springs of water--

11the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died

from the waters that had become bitter.

12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon,

and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light,

and also a third of the night.

13As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice:

Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other

three angels!

9The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth.

The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun

and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.

3And

out

of

the

smoke

locusts

came

down

upon

the

earth

and

were

given

power

like

that

of

scorpions of the earth.

4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who

did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

5They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony

they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

6During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will

elude them.

7The

locusts

looked

like

horses

prepared

for

battle.

On

their

heads

they

wore

something

like

crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

9They

had

breastplates

like

breastplates

of

iron,

and

the

sound

of

their

wings

was

like

the

thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

10They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for

five months.

11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in

Greek, Apollyon.

12The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.

13The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden

altar that is before God.

14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,

great river Euphrates.

15And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year

were released to kill a third of mankind.

16The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.

17The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark

blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their

mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.

18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of

their mouths.

19The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes,

having heads with which they inflict injury.

20The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their

hands;

they

did

not

stop

worshiping

demons,

and

idols

of

gold,

silver,

bronze,

stone

and

wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

21Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

10Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a

rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.

2He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and

his left foot on the land,

3and

he

gave

a

loud

shout

like

the

roar

of

a

lion.

When

he

shouted,

the

voices

of

the

seven

thunders spoke.

4And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say,

5Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.

6And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them,

the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said,

delay!

7But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be

accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.

8Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more:

open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.

9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me,

It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.

10I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth,

but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.

11Then I was told,

11I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told,

the altar, and count the worshipers there.

2But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They

will trample on the holy city for 42 months.

3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in

sackcloth.

4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

5If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is

how anyone who wants to harm them must die.

6These

men

have

power

to

shut

up

the

sky

so

that

it

will

not

rain

during

the

time

they

are

prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every

kind of plague as often as they want.

7Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack

them, and overpower and kill them.

8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt,

where also their Lord was crucified.

9For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their

bodies and refuse them burial.

10The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,

because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

11But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on

their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.

12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them,

to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

13At

that

very

hour

there

was

a

severe

earthquake

and

a

tenth

of

the

city

collapsed.

Seven

thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to

the God of heaven.

14The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.

15The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:

kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for

ever and ever.

16And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and

worshiped God,

17saying:

have taken your great power and have begun to reign.

18The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and

for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both

small and great-- and for destroying those who destroy the earth.

19Then

God's

temple

in

heaven

was

opened,

and

within

his

temple

was

seen

the

ark

of

his

covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a

great hailstorm.

12A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon

under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

2She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

3Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns

and seven crowns on his heads.

4His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in

front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it

was born.

5She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her

child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

6The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken