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

4I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of Babylon, my people, so that you do not participate in her sins and suffer from any of her plagues. 5Her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. Do to her what she has done. Give her twice as much as she gave. Serve her a drink in her own cup twice as large as the drink she served others. 7She gave herself glory and luxury. Now give her just as much torture and misery. She says to herself, ‘I’m a queen on a throne, not a widow. I’ll never be miserable.’ 8For this reason her plagues of death, misery, and starvation will come in a single day. She will be burned up in a fire, because the Lord God, who judges her, is powerful.

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 taken prisoner, he must go to prison. If anyone is killed with a sword, with a sword he must be killed. In this situation God’s holy people need endurance and confidence.
• Revelation 16:5Then I heard the angel of the water say, “You are fair. You are the one who is and the one who was, the holy one, because you have judged these things.
• Exodus 21:23If anyone is injured, the offender must pay a life for a life,
• Psalms 137:8You destructive people of Babylon, blessed is the one who pays you back with the same treatment you gave us.
• Jeremiah 50:15Shout a war cry against them on every side. They’ll surrender. Their towers will fall and their walls will be torn down. Since this is the Lord’s vengeance, take revenge against them. Do to them what they did to others.
• Jeremiah 51:24“In your presence I will pay back Babylon and all the people who live in Babylon for all the evil things that they did in Zion,” declares the Lord.
• 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.
• Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and announce to it that its time of hard labor is over and its wrongs have been paid for. It has received from the Lord double for all its sins.”
• Isaiah 61:7You will receive a double measure of wealth instead of your shame. You will sing about your wealth instead of being disgraced. That is why you will have a double measure of wealth in your land. You will have everlasting joy.
• Jeremiah 16:18First, I will have them pay twice as much for their wickedness and their sin, because they have polluted my land. They have filled my property with the lifeless statues of their detestable and disgusting idols.”
• Jeremiah 17:18Put my persecutors to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Terrify them, but do not let me be terrified. Bring the day of disaster on them, and destroy them completely.
• Zechariah 9:12Return to your fortress, you captives who have hope. Today I tell you that I will return to you double ⌞blessings⌟.
• Revelation 14:10will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured unmixed into the cup of God’s anger. Then he will be tortured by fiery sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the lamb.
• Revelation 16:19The important city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered to give Babylon the Great the cup of wine from his fierce anger.
• Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth had sex with her, and those living on earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual sins.”

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