Revelation 2:21

Amplified Bible

'I gave her time to repent [to change her inner self and her sinful way of thinking], but she has no desire to repent of her immorality and refuses to do so.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I gave her time to repent,

King James Version (1611)
And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.

King James Version
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

English Standard Version
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

New American Standard Bible
'I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.

New Century Version
I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin, but she does not want to change.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

Berean Standard Bible
Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

Contemporary English Version
I gave her a chance to turn from her sins, but she did not want to stop doing these immoral things.

Complete Jewish Bible
I gave her time to turn from her sin, but she doesn't want to repent of her immorality.

Darby Translation
And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.

Easy-to-Read Version
I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin, but she does not want to change.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.

George Lamsa Translation
And I gave her time to repent, but she did not repent from her fornication.

Good News Translation
I have given her time to repent of her sins, but she does not want to turn from her immorality.

Lexham English Bible
And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality.

Literal Translation
And I gave time to her that she might repent of her fornication. And she did not repent.

American Standard Version
And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

Bible in Basic English
And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.

Hebrew Names Version
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

International Standard Version
I gave her time to repent, but she refused to repent of her immorality.Romans 2:4; Revelation 9:20;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And I gave her time when she might convert, and she willed not to repent of her fornication.

Murdock Translation
And I gave her a season for repentance, and she is not disposed to repent of her whoredom.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.

English Revised Version
And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

World English Bible
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And I gave her time to repent of her fornication; but she will not repent.

Weymouth's New Testament
I have given her time to repent, but she is determined not to repent of her fornication.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y yaf to hir time, that sche schulde do penaunce, and sche wolde not do penaunce of hir fornycacioun.

Update Bible Version
And I gave her time that she should repent; and she does not want to repent of her fornication.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I gave her time to repent of her lewdness, and she repented not.

New English Translation
I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

New King James Version
And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. [fn]

New Living Translation
I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to turn away from her immorality.

New Life Bible
I gave her time to be sorry for her sins and turn from them. She does not want to turn from her sex sins.

New Revised Standard
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her fornication.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and I gave her time, that she might repent, and she willeth not to repent out of her lewdness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I gave her a time that she might do penance: and she will not repent of her fornication.

Revised Standard Version
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And I gave her space to repent of her fornicacion and she repented not.

Young's Literal Translation
and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I gaue her space to repet of her fornicacion, and she repented not.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I gave her space to repent of her fornication, but she repented not.

Simplified Cowboy Version
I've given her enough rope to get herself out of her sin, but she refuses. She's going to use it to hang herself with.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸"And to the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes [that flash] like a flame of fire [in righteous judgment], and whose feet are like burnished [white-hot] bronze: ¹⁹'I know your deeds, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your last deeds are more numerous and greater than the first. ²⁰'But I have this [charge] against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and she teaches and misleads My bond-servants so that they commit [acts of sexual] immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹'I gave her time to repent [to change her inner self and her sinful way of thinking], but she has no desire to repent of her immorality and refuses to do so.²²'Listen carefully, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her [I will bring] into great anguish, unless they repent of her deeds. ²³'And I will kill her children (followers) with pestilence [thoroughly annihilating them], and all the churches will know [without any doubt] that I am He who searches the minds and hearts [the innermost thoughts, purposes]; and I will give to each one of you [a reward or punishment] according to your deeds. ²⁴'But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not explored and known the depths of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you, ²⁵except to hold tightly to what you have until I come. ²⁶'And he who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God] and he who keeps My deeds [doing things that please Me] until the [very] end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY and POWER OVER THE NATIONS; ²⁷AND HE SHALL SHEPHERD and RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON, AS THE EARTHEN POTS ARE BROKEN IN PIECES, as I also have received authority [and power to rule them] from My Father;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

space: Revelation 9:20, Revelation 9:21, Jeremiah 8:4-6, Romans 2:4, Romans 2:5, Romans 9:22, 1 Peter 3:20, 2 Peter 3:9, 2 Peter 3:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:2 - General Isaiah 26:10 - favour Jeremiah 44:5 - they Ezekiel 18:30 - so Daniel 4:29 - end Amos 4:6 - yet Haggai 2:17 - yet Matthew 3:2 - Repent Matthew 11:20 - because Matthew 21:32 - repented Luke 13:3 - except Luke 15:15 - he went John 5:14 - lest John 8:11 - go Acts 8:22 - Repent Acts 26:20 - repent 1 Corinthians 5:1 - fornication Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Revelation 2:2 - how Revelation 2:5 - and repent Revelation 2:16 - Repent Revelation 3:3 - repent Revelation 3:19 - repent Revelation 16:9 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul's head, and they left, and no one saw or knew nor did anyone awaken, because they were all sound asleep, for a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

Job 4:13
"Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

Job 33:15
"In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God's voice], When deep sleep falls on men While slumbering upon the bed,

Proverbs 19:15
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep [unmindful of lost opportunity], And the idle person will suffer hunger.

Daniel 8:18
Now as he (Gabriel) was speaking with me, I drifted into a deep sleep (unconsciousness) with my face to the ground; but he touched me and made me stand [where I had stood before].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication,.... Of idolatry. This may have respect to the time of the witnesses, the Waldenses, and others, who bore a testimony against the Romish idolatry, and reproved for it, and denounced the judgment of God in case of impenitence; and as these things were repeated time after time, this may be called a space given to repent in; just as Jezebel had a space given her to repent in, from the time that Elijah declared the word of the Lord, that the dogs should eat her: so the Jews b say of the old world, that God gave them זמן לשוב, "space to repent", but they repented not, as here:

and she repented not; see Revelation 9:20; for the time for, and means leading to repentance may be given, yet if the grace of repentance itself is not given, men, either particular persons, or whole bodies of men, will never repent of their sins. The Alexandrian copy, Complutensian, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read, "and she would not repent".

b Juchasin, fol. 7. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication - Probably after some direct and solemn warning of the evil of her course. The error and sin had been of long standing, but he now resolved to bear with it no longer. It is true of almost every great sinner, that sufficient time is given for repentance, and that vengeance is delayed after crime is committed. But it cannot always be deferred, for the period must arrive when no reason shall exist for longer delay, and when punishment must come upon the offender.

And she repented not - As she did not do it; as she showed no disposition to abandon her course; as all plea of having had no time to repent would now be taken away, it was proper that he should rise in his anger and cut her down.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 2:21. I gave her space to repent — "This alludes to the history of Jezebel. God first sent Elijah to Ahab to pronounce a severe judgment upon him; upon which Ahab showed tokens of repentance, and so God put off his punishment. By these means the like punishment pronounced against Jezebel was also put off. Thus God gave her time to repent, which she did not, but instead of that seduced her sons to the same sins. See 1 Kings 21:1-29. According to the Mosaical law, the punishment of idolatrous seducers was not to be delayed at all, but God sometimes showed mercy; and now much more under the Christian dispensation, though that mercy is often abused, and thus produces the contrary effect, as in the case of this Jezebel. See Ecclesiastes 8:11.