Revelation 6:17

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“For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?””

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BSBPD

“For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Revelation 6:17 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
  2. Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
  3. Isaiah 13:6Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
  4. Jeremiah 30:7How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
  5. Joel 2:11The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?
  6. Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
  7. Zephaniah 1:14The great Day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter.
  8. Malachi 3:2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
  9. Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
  10. Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  11. Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
  12. Revelation 11:18The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great— and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
  13. Revelation 16:14These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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