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 resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries. 20The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about. Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·καίkai · andG2532
• Neitherοὐou · noG3756
• repented theyμετανοέωmetanoeō · to repentG3340
• ofἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• theirαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• murdersὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• murdersφόνοςphonos · murderG5408
• norοὔτεoute · neitherG3777
• sorceriesφαρμακείαpharmakeia · sorceryG5331
• fornicationπορνείαporneia · sexual sinG4202
• theftsκλέμμαklemma · theftG2809

Cross-references for Revelation 9:21

• Revelation 11:7When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.
• Revelation 13:7The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation,
• Revelation 16:6because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”
• Revelation 18:24The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”
• Daniel 7:21While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating them,
• Daniel 11:33These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. However, they will fall by the sword and by the flame, and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time.
• Revelation 13:13He performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of people
• Revelation 18:23Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells!
• Revelation 21:8But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
• Revelation 22:15Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
• Isaiah 47:9Both of these will come upon you suddenly, in one day! You will lose your children and be widowed. You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies, despite your many incantations and your numerous amulets.
• Isaiah 57:3But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!
• Malachi 3:5“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.
• Revelation 14:8A second angel followed the first, declaring: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great city! She made all the nations drink of the wine of her immoral passion.”
• Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
• Revelation 18:3For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”

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