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 Living Translation (NLT)And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Context of Revelation 9:21

19For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm. 20But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

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 finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.
• Revelation 13:7It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
• Revelation 16:6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, And You have given them blood to drink. For it is their just due.”
• Revelation 18:24And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.”
• Daniel 7:21“I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them,
• Daniel 11:33And those of the people who understand shall instruct many; yet for many days they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plundering.
• Revelation 13:13He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
• Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
• Revelation 21:8But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Revelation 22:15But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
• Isaiah 47:9But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.
• Isaiah 57:3“But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
• Malachi 3:5And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts.
• Revelation 14:8And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
• Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
• Revelation 18:3For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance 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