Revelation 4:1

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“After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.””

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BSBPD

“After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voiceas of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard <FI>is<Fi> as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Revelation 4:1 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
  2. Exodus 19:24And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”
  3. Exodus 24:12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
  4. Exodus 34:2Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
  5. Proverbs 25:7for it is better that he says to you, “Come up here!” than that you should be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,
  6. Matthew 3:16As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
  7. Mark 1:10As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
  8. Luke 3:21When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,
  9. John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
  10. Acts 7:56“Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
  11. Acts 10:11He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
  12. Revelation 1:1This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
  13. Revelation 1:10On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
  14. Revelation 1:19Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.
  15. Revelation 11:12And the witnesses heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud as their enemies watched them.
  16. Revelation 16:17Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!”
  17. Revelation 22:6Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.”

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