Revelation 18:6

Revelation 18:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
• New International Version (NIV)Give back to her as she has given; pay her back double for what she has done. Pour her a double portion from her own cup.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.

Context of Revelation 18:6

4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues. 5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup. 7As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ 8Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Revelation 18:6 word by word

ἀπόδοτε αὐτῇ ὡς καὶ αὐτὴ ἀπέδωκεν καὶ διπλώσατε τὰ διπλᾶ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῆς. ἐν τῷ ποτηρίῳ ᾧ ἐκέρασεν, κεράσατε αὐτῇ διπλοῦν.Read the interlinear

• Give backἀποδίδωμιapodidōmi · to payG591
• to herαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• ·καίkai · andG2532
• pay her backδιπλόωdiploō · to doubleG1363
• pay her backὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• doubleδιπλοῦςdiplous · doubleG1362
• for whatκατάkata · according toG2596
• has doneἔργονergon · workG2041
• mixκεράννυμιkerannumi · to mixG2767
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• cupποτήριονpotērion · cupG4221
• ·ὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739

Cross-references for Revelation 18:6

• Revelation 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
• Revelation 16:5And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
• Exodus 21:23But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
• Psalms 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
• Jeremiah 50:15Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
• Jeremiah 51:24Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
• 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
• Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
• Isaiah 61:7Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
• Jeremiah 16:18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
• Jeremiah 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
• Zechariah 9:12Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
• Revelation 14:10he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
• Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
• Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”

Commentaries on Revelation 18:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you - These words are a prophetic declaration of what shall take place: God will deal with her as she dealt with others.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you - It is not said to whom this command is addressed, but it would seem to be to those who had been persecuted and wronged. Applied to mystical Babylon - papal Rome - it would seem to be a call on the nations that had been so long under her sway, and among whom, from time to time, so much blood had been shed by her, to arise now in their might, and to inflict deserved vengeance. See the notes on Revelation 17:16-17. And…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6pay her back double: Some sins were so severe that they required double repayment (see Exodus 22:4, 7, 9; compare Isaiah 40:2; Jeremiah 16:18; 17:18).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Addressed to the executioners of God's wrath. Reward--Greek, "repay." she rewarded--English Version reading adds "you" with none of the oldest manuscripts. But A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic omit it. She had not rewarded or repaid the world power for some injury which the world power had inflicted on her; but she had given the world power that which was its due, namely, spiritual delusions, because it did not like to retain God in its knowledge…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Revelation 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings