Revelation 9:21

Revelation 9:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• New International Version (NIV)Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
• English Standard Version (ESV)nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Context of Revelation 9:21

19For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm. 20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.

Revelation 9:21 word by word

καὶ οὐ μετενόησαν ἐκ τῶν φόνων αὐτῶν οὔτε ἐκ τῶν φαρμάκων αὐτῶν οὔτε ἐκ τῆς πορνείας αὐτῶν οὔτε ἐκ τῶν κλεμμάτων αὐτῶν.¶Read the interlinear

• Furthermoreκαίkai · andG2532
• they did not repentοὐou · noG3756
• they did not repentμετανοέωmetanoeō · to repentG3340
• ofἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• theirαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• murderφόνοςphonos · murderG5408
• ·οὔτεoute · neitherG3777
• sorceryφάρμακοςpharmakos · sorcererG5333
• sexual immoralityπορνείαporneia · sexual sinG4202
• theftκλέμμαklemma · theftG2809

Cross-references for Revelation 9:21

• Revelation 11:7When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
• Revelation 13:7Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
• Revelation 16:6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
• Revelation 18:24And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
• Daniel 7:21As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,
• Daniel 11:33Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
• Revelation 13:13And the second beast performed great signs, even causing fire from heaven to come down to earth in the presence of the people.
• Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
• Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Isaiah 47:9These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
• Isaiah 57:3“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
• Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Revelation 14:8Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
• 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.”
• Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

Commentaries on Revelation 9:21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Neither repented they of their murders - Their cruelties towards the genuine followers of God, the Albigenses, and Waldenses, and others, against whom they published crusades, and hunted them down, and butchered them in the most shocking manner. The innumerable murders by the horrible inquisition need not be mentioned. Their sorceries - Those who apply this also to the Romish Church understand by it the various tricks, sleights of hand, or legerdemain, by…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-21Verses 13-21 The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brought a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian generation repented not under these dreadful judgments. From this sixth trumpet learn that God can make one enemy of the church a scourge and a plague to another. The idolatry in the remains of the eastern church and elsewhere, and the sins of professed…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-21Even when faced with plagues and death, people do not automatically repent. They often continue their evil actions and worship demons and idols (things from the created world) instead of worshiping the Creator (see Revelation 13:4; 14:9–10; Romans 1:25; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 10:19–22). murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft: What people worship reflects how they live (see Revelation 21:8; 22:15; Romans 1:23, 29–32). Revelation shows how strongly sin…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. sorceries--witchcrafts by means of drugs (so the Greek). One of the fruits of the unrenewed flesh: the sin of the heathen: about to be repeated by apostate Christians in the last days, Re 22:15, "sorcerers." The heathen who shall have rejected the proffered Gospel and clung to their fleshly lusts, and apostate Christians who shall have relapsed into the same shall share the same terrible judgments. The worship of images was established in the East in…Read the comment

Topics related to Revelation 9:21

• Adultery
• Afflictions and Adversities
• Homicide
• Idolatry
• Impenitence
• Obduracy (Hardness)
• Theft and Thieves

In the dictionaries

• Abaddon
• Angel
• Authority in Religion
• Crime; Crimes
• Enchantment
• Government
• Murder
• Revelation of John
• sorcerer, sorceress, sorcery, sorceries, witchcraft, magician

Commentaries on Revelation 9

• 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
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings