Revelation 22:15 BSB

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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ASV

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

KJV

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

For without are dogs,.... That is, without the holy city are such persons who are comparable to dogs for their filthiness, impudence, and voraciousness, as are persecutors, heretics, and apostates, Mat 7:6. Some think Sodomites are intended, as in Deu 23:18. So Abarbinel and others interpret the law; and who abound in the Roman jurisdiction, called therefore Sodom, Rev 11:8 and indeed all wicked men, who will be cast out into outer darkness, may be signified hereby.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For without are dogs - The wicked, the depraved, the vile: for of such characters the dogs, an unclean animal among the Jews, was regarded as a symbol, Deu 23:18. On the meaning of the expression, see the notes on Php 3:2. The word “without” means that they would not be admitted into the heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, Rev 21:8, Rev 21:27. And sorcerers, ... - All these characters are specified in Rev 21:8, as excluded from heaven. See the notes on that verse.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἔξω	Exō	Outside [are]	G1854 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
κύνες	kunes	dogs	G2965 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
φάρμακοι	pharmakoi	sorcerers	G5333 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πόρνοι	pornoi	sexually immoral	G4205 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
φονεῖς	phoneis	murderers	G5406 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
εἰδωλολάτραι	eidōlolatrai	idolaters	G1496 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πᾶς	pas	everyone	G3956 →
φιλῶν	philōn	is loving	G5368 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ποιῶν	poiōn	practicing	G4160 →
ψεῦδος.¶	pseudos	falsehood.	G5579 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
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…
leads to
- 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 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.
- Ephesians 5:5–6
  For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Revelation 20:14–15
  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
- Galatians 5:19–21
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Through
Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:13
  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Through
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.
leads to
- Revelation 22:14–15
  Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
- Isaiah 52:1
  Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.

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Where the connections lead

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