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 their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of 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

• ·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 11:7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
• Revelation 13:7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and authority was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
• Revelation 16:6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
• Revelation 18:24And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
• Daniel 7:21I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
• Daniel 11:33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
• Revelation 13:13And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
• Revelation 18:23And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
• Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Revelation 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Isaiah 47:9But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
• Isaiah 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
• Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Yhwh of Armies.
• Revelation 14:8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
• Revelation 17:2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
• Revelation 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

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