Revelation 5:10

Amplified Bible

"You have made them to be a kingdom [of royal subjects] and priests to our God; and they will reign on the earth."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You made them a kingdomand priests to our God,and they will reign on the earth.

King James Version (1611)
And hast made vs vnto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reigne on the earth.

King James Version
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

New American Standard Bible
You have made them into a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth."

New Century Version
You made them to be a kingdom of priests for our God, and they will rule on the earth."

English Standard Version
and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth."

Berean Standard Bible
You have made them into a kingdom, priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth."

Contemporary English Version
You let them become kings and serve God as priests, and they will rule on earth."

Complete Jewish Bible
You made them into a kingdom for God to rule, cohanim to serve him; and they will rule over the earth."

Darby Translation
and made them to our God kings and priests; and they shall reign over the earth.

Easy-to-Read Version
You made them to be a kingdom and to be priests for our God. And they will rule on the earth."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hast made vs vnto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reigne on the earth.

George Lamsa Translation
And have made them to our God kings and priests: and they shall reign on the earth.

Good News Translation
You have made them a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they shall rule on earth."

Lexham English Bible
and made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth."

Literal Translation
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign over the earth.

American Standard Version
and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

Bible in Basic English
And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.

Hebrew Names Version
And made them kings and Kohanim to our God, And they reign on eretz."

International Standard Version
You made them a kingdom and priests for our God,Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:5,9; Revelation 1:6; 20:6; 22:5;">[xr] and they will reign on the earth."

Etheridge Translation
And thou hast made them [fn] to our God kings and priests, And reigning upon the earth.

Murdock Translation
and thou hast made them kings and priests to our God; and they reign on the earth.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And hast made vs vnto our God kinges and priestes, and we shall raigne on the earth.

English Revised Version
and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

World English Bible
And made them kings and priests to our God, And they reign on earth."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And hast made them unto our God kings and priests, and they shall reign over the earth.

Weymouth's New Testament
And hast formed them into a Kingdom to be priests to our God, And they reign over the earth."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and madist vs a kyngdom, and prestis to oure God; and we schulen regne on erthe.

Update Bible Version
and made them [to be] to our God a kingdom and priests; and they will reign on earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And hast made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

New English Translation
You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."

New King James Version
And have made us [fn] kings [fn] and priests to our God;And we [fn] shall reign on the earth."

New Living Translation
And you have caused them to become a Kingdom of priests for our God. And they will reign on the earth."

New Life Bible
You have made them to be a holy nation of religious leaders to work for our God. They will be the leaders on the earth."

New Revised Standard
you have made them to be a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And didst make them, unto our God, a kingdom and priests, - and they reign on the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

Revised Standard Version
and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and haste made vs vnto oure god kynges and prestes and we shall raygne on the erth.

Young's Literal Translation
and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& hast made vs vnto or God, kynges and prestes, and we shal raygne on ye earth.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and hast made us kings and priests unto our God: and we shall reign on the earth."

Simplified Cowboy Version
They are now a kingdom of priests that serve God and God alone, and they will rule the earth."

Contextual Overview

⁶And there between the throne (with the four living creatures) and among the elders I saw a Lamb (Christ) standing, [bearing scars and wounds] as though it had been slain, with seven horns (complete power) and with seven eyes (complete knowledge), which are the seven Spirits of God who have been sent [on duty] into all the earth. ⁷And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. ⁸And when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb (Christ), each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of fragrant incense, which are the prayers of the saints (God's people). ⁹And they sang a new song [of glorious redemption], saying, "Worthy and deserving are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slain (sacrificed), and with Your blood You purchased people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. ¹⁰"You have made them to be a kingdom [of royal subjects] and priests to our God; and they will reign on the earth." ¹¹Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and [the voice] of the living creatures and the elders; and they numbered myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands (innumerable), ¹²saying in a loud voice, "Worthy and deserving is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing." ¹³And I heard every created thing that is in heaven or on earth or under the earth [in Hades, the realm of the dead] or on the sea, and everything that is in them, saying [together], "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb (Christ), be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever." ¹⁴And the four living creatures kept saying, "Amen." And the elders fell down and worshiped [Him who lives forever and ever].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

kings: Revelation 1:6, Revelation 20:6, Revelation 22:5, Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:5-9

we: Revelation 20:6, Daniel 7:18, Daniel 7:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:2 - glory Exodus 39:30 - Holiness Leviticus 8:13 - Moses Numbers 16:5 - who is holy Numbers 26:53 - General Deuteronomy 32:43 - Rejoice 1 Samuel 2:8 - set them 1 Chronicles 15:12 - sanctify 2 Chronicles 23:11 - put upon Psalms 37:9 - inherit Psalms 40:3 - And he Psalms 45:16 - princes Psalms 113:8 - General Psalms 144:9 - sing a new Song of Solomon 3:11 - his mother Isaiah 11:6 - General Isaiah 42:12 - General Isaiah 53:11 - see Isaiah 60:6 - they shall show Isaiah 60:21 - inherit Isaiah 61:6 - named Isaiah 66:21 - General Jeremiah 30:21 - and I Jeremiah 31:14 - satiate Jeremiah 33:18 - General Jeremiah 33:21 - and with Daniel 7:22 - judgment Hosea 11:12 - ruleth Zechariah 14:20 - HOLINESS Malachi 3:3 - the sons Matthew 25:34 - inherit Romans 5:17 - shall reign 1 Corinthians 4:8 - ye did 2 Thessalonians 1:11 - our God 2 Timothy 2:12 - we suffer Hebrews 12:28 - a kingdom James 1:9 - in 1 Peter 2:9 - a royal 2 Peter 1:11 - everlasting

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests,....

:-. The Alexandrian copy, and Complutensian edition, and the Syriac, Arabic, and the Ethiopic versions, read "them", instead of "us":

and we shall reign on the earth; meaning not merely in a spiritual sense, through grace reigning over sin and corruption, through Satan being bruised under their feet, and through the victory they have in Christ over the world, but in the millennium state, in the thousand years' reign with Christ in the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness; see Revelation 20:4. The Alexandrian copy, and the Complutensian edition, Syriac and Arabic versions, read "they shall reign".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests - See the notes on Revelation 1:6.

And we shall reign on the earth - The redeemed, of whom we are the representatives. The idea clearly is, in accordance with what is so frequently said in the Scriptures, that the dominion on the earth will be given to the saints; that is, that there will be such a prevalence of true religion, and the redeemed will be so much in the ascendency, that the affairs of the nations will be in their hands. Righteous people will hold the offices; will fill places of trust and responsibility; will have a controlling voice in all that pertains to human affairs. See the notes on Daniel 7:27, and Revelation 20:1-6 notes. To such a prevalence of religion all things are tending; and to this, in all the disorder and sin which now exist, are we permitted to look forward. It is not said that this will be a reign under the Saviour in a literal kingdom on the earth; nor is it said that the saints will descend from heaven, and occupy thrones of power under Christ as a visible king. The simple affirmation is, that they will reign on the earth; and as this seems to be spoken in the name of the redeemed, all that is necessary to be understood is, that there will be such a prevalence of true religion on the earth that it will become a vast kingdom of holiness, and that, instead of being in the minority, the saints will everywhere have the ascendency.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 5:10. Kings and priests — See Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9, and the notes there.