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The Sixth Seal: Terror

Revelation 6:17

In 9 translations

BSB
For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”BYZ and TR His
KJV
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
WEB
for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
ASV
for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
LSV
because the great day of His anger has come, and who is able to stand?
YLT
because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?
DBY
because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand?
DRC
For the great day of their wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
GNV
For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand?

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read αὐτῶν (“of them”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read αὐτοῦ (“of Him”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: αὐτῶν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτῶν; Robinson–Pierpont read αὐτοῦ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὅτι ἦλθεν ἡ ἡμέρα ἡ μεγάλη τῆς ὀργῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ τίς δύναται σταθῆναι;
RP2018
ὅτι ἦλθεν ἡ ἡμέρα ἡ μεγάλη τῆς ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τίς δύναται σταθῆναι;
TR-Boyd
ὅτι ἦλθεν ἡ ἡμέρα ἡ μεγάλη τῆς ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τίς δύναται σταθῆναι;
SCR1894
οτι ηλθεν η ημερα η μεγαλη της οργης αυτου και τις δυναται σταθηναι

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Malachi 3:2But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
  • Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
  • Joel 2:11The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure it?
  • Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
  • Jeremiah 30:7How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
  • Revelation 16:14These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
  • Isaiah 13:6–22Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt. Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe…
  • Zephaniah 1:14–18The great Day of the LORD is near— near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction…
  • Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Psalms 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
  • Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
  • Revelation 11:18The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great— and to destroy…
  • Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”

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