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Revelation 22:10-12
New English Translation
Revelation 22:10-12
New English Translation
10 Then[a] he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy contained in this book, because the time is near. 11 The evildoer must continue to do evil,[b] and the one who is morally filthy[c] must continue to be filthy. The[d] one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”
12 (Look ! I am coming soon,
and my reward is with me to pay[e] each one according to what he has done!
Footnotes
- Revelation 22:10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
- Revelation 22:11 tn Grk “must do evil still.”
- Revelation 22:11 tn For this translation see L&N 88.258; the term refers to living in moral filth.
- Revelation 22:11 tn Grk “filthy, and the.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, but because of the length and complexity of the construction a new sentence was started in the translation.
- Revelation 22:12 tn The Greek term may be translated either “pay” or “pay back” and has something of a double meaning here. However, because of the mention of “wages” (“reward,” another wordplay with two meanings) in the previous clause, the translation “pay” for ἀποδοῦναι (apodounai) was used here.
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