Revelation 21:8 BSB

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

BSB

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ASV

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

KJV

But 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.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But the fearful,.... Not the timorous sheep and lambs of Christ, the dear children of God, who are sometimes of a fearful heart, on account of sin, temptation, and unbelief; but such who are of cowardly spirits, and are not valiant for the truth, but who, through fear of men, either make no profession of Christ and his Gospel, or having made it, drop it, lest they should be exposed to tribulation and persecution; these are they that are afraid of the beast, and live in servile bondage to him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But the fearful and unbelieving - Who, through want of courage and faith, do not overcome. And abominable - That is, sodomites. And whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters - These three sins generally went together; their part is in the lake.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But the fearful - Δειλοις· Those who, for fear of losing life or their property, either refused to receive the Christian religion, though convinced of its truth and importance; or, having received it, in times of persecution fell away, not being willing to risk their lives. And unbelieving - Those who resist against full evidence. And sinners, και ἁμαρτωλοις, is added here by about thirty excellent MSS., and is found in the Syrian, Arabic, some of the Slavonic, and in Andreas and Arethas. On this evidence Griesbach has admitted it into the text.

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Original language & word study

36 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
δειλοῖς	deilois	to [the] cowardly	G1169 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπίστοις	apistois	to [the] unbelieving	G571 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐβδελυγμένοις	ebdelugmenois	having made themselves abominable	G948 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
φονεῦσιν	phoneusin	to murderers	G5406 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πόρνοις	pornois	to the sexually immoral	G4205 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
φαρμάκοις	pharmakois	to sorcerers	G5333 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εἰδωλολάτραις	eidōlolatrais	to idolaters	G1496 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πᾶσιν	pasin	to all	G3956 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
ψευδέσιν,	pseudesin	liars,	G5571 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
μέρος	meros	portion	G3313 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἐν	en	[is] in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
λίμνῃ	limnē	lake	G3041 →
τῇ	tēa	which	G3588 →
καιομένῃ	kaiomenē	is burning	G2545 →
πυρὶ	puri	with fire	G4442 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θείῳ,	theiō	with brimstone,	G2303 →
ὅ	ho	which	G3739 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
θάνατος	thanatos	death	G2288 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δεύτερος.¶	deuteros	second.	G1208 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
leads to
- Galatians 5:19–21
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Philippians 3:2
  Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 21:27
  But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Revelation 9:20–21
  Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze,…
Through
Revelation 2:11
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
leads to
- Revelation 20:6
  Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him…
- Revelation 20:14
  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
- Revelation 2:7
  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the…

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