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: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues. 5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. Pay her back the way she also paid, and double it according to her works. In the cup in which she mixed, mix a double portion for her. 7As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways, give her that much torment and grief. For she says in her heart, “I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.” 8For this reason her plagues will come in just one day — death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Rewardἀποδίδωμιapodidōmi · to payG591
• herαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• evenκαίkai · andG2532
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• youσύsu · youG4771
• doubleδιπλόωdiploō · to doubleG1363
• doubleδιπλοῦςdiplous · doubleG1362
• according toκατάkata · according toG2596
• worksὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• worksἔργονergon · workG2041
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• the cupποτήριονpotērion · cupG4221
• whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• she hath filledκεράννυμιkerannumi · to mixG2767

Cross-references for Revelation 18:6

• Revelation 13:10If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed. This calls for endurance and faithfulness from the saints.
• Revelation 16:5I heard the angel of the waters say, You are just, the Holy One, who is and who was, because you have passed judgment on these things.
• Exodus 21:23If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,
• Psalms 137:8Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what 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 defense towers have fallen; her walls are demolished. Since this is the Lord’s vengeance, take your vengeance on her; as she has done, do the same to her.
• Jeremiah 51:24“Before your very eyes, I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
• 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works.
• Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and announce to her that her time of hard service is over, her iniquity has been pardoned, and she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”
• Isaiah 61:7In place of your shame, you will have a double portion; in place of disgrace, they will rejoice over their share. So they will possess double in their land, and eternal joy will be theirs.
• Jeremiah 16:18I will first repay them double for their iniquity and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”
• Jeremiah 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but don’t let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified. Bring on them the day of disaster; shatter them with total destruction.
• Zechariah 9:12Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you.
• Revelation 14:10he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is poured full strength into the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb,
• Revelation 16:19The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; he gave her the cup filled with the wine of his fierce anger.
• Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual 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