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New King James Version

Revelation 14:5

And in their mouth was found no deceit, [fn] for they are without fault before the throne of God. [fn]

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Celibacy;   Chastity;   Continence;   Deceit;   Holiness;   Obedience;   Righteous;   Song;   Speaking;   Throne;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Faultless;   Faultlessness;   Guileless;   Innocence;   Innocence-Guilt;   Mouth of the Righteous;   Silence-Speech;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;   Sincerity;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lie;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christians, Names of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bartholomew;   Cuttings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Predestination;   Revelation, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Deceit, Deception, Guile;   Mouth Lips;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lamb;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Forehead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ascension;   Fault;   Guile;   Revelation of John:;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
King James Version (1611)
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
King James Version
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
New American Standard Bible
And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
New Century Version
They were not guilty of telling lies; they are without fault.
THE MESSAGE
A Perfect Offering I saw—it took my breath away!—the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, 144,000 standing there with him, his Name and the Name of his Father inscribed on their foreheads. And I heard a voice out of Heaven, the sound like a cataract, like the crash of thunder. And then I heard music, harp music and the harpists singing a new song before the Throne and the Four Animals and the Elders. Only the 144,000 could learn to sing the song. They were bought from earth, lived without compromise, virgin-fresh before God. Wherever the Lamb went, they followed. They were bought from humankind, firstfruits of the harvest for God and the Lamb. Not a false word in their mouths. A perfect offering.
English Standard Version
and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.
Berean Standard Bible
And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
Contemporary English Version
They never tell lies, and they are innocent.
Complete Jewish Bible
on their lips no lie was found — they are without defect.
Darby Translation
and in their mouths was no lie found; [for] they are blameless.
Easy-to-Read Version
They are not guilty of telling lies; they are without fault.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in their mouthes was found no guile: for they are without spot before the throne of God.
George Lamsa Translation
And in their mouth was found no deceit: for they are without fault.
Good News Translation
They have never been known to tell lies; they are faultless.
Lexham English Bible
and in their mouth a lie was not found; they are blameless.
Literal Translation
And no guile was found in their mouth, for they are without blemish before the throne of God.
Amplified Bible
No lie was found in their mouth, for they are blameless (spotless, untainted, beyond reproach).
American Standard Version
And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.
Bible in Basic English
And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.
Hebrew Names Version
In their mouth was found no lie. They are without fault.
International Standard Version
In their mouth no lie was found. They are blameless.Psalm 32:2; Zephaniah 3:13; Ephesians 5:27; Jude 1:24;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And in their mouth falsehood was not found, for they are without spot.
Murdock Translation
And in their mouth was found, no falsehood; for they are without faults.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in their mouthes was founde no guile: For they are without spot before the throne of God.
English Revised Version
And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.
World English Bible
In their mouth was found no lie. They are without fault.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And in their mouth there was found no guile: they are without fault.
Weymouth's New Testament
And no lie has ever been found upon their lips: they are faultless.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and in the mouth of hem lesyng is not foundun; for thei ben with out wem bifor the trone of God.
Update Bible Version
And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
New English Translation
and no lie was found on their lips; they are blameless.
New Living Translation
They have told no lies; they are without blame.
New Life Bible
No lie has come from their mouths. They are without blame.
New Revised Standard
and in their mouth no lie was found; they are blameless.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, in their mouth, was found no falsehood, - faultless, they are.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without spot before the throne of God.
Revised Standard Version
and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are spotless.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and in their mouthes was foude no gyle. For they are with oute spott before the trone of god.
Young's Literal Translation
and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and in their mouthes was founde no gyle. For they are withoute spot before the trone of God.
Mace New Testament (1729)
in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without defect.
Simplified Cowboy Version
These cowboys have told no lies and are without blame.

Contextual Overview

1 Then I looked, and behold, a [fn] Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having [fn] His Father's name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. 4 These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed [fn] from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. 5 And in their mouth was found no deceit, [fn] for they are without fault before the throne of God. [fn]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: Psalms 32:2, Psalms 34:13, Psalms 55:11, Proverbs 8:8, Isaiah 53:9, Zephaniah 3:13, Matthew 12:34, John 1:47, 1 Peter 3:10

without: Song of Solomon 4:7, Daniel 6:4, Hosea 10:2, Luke 23:4, Ephesians 5:27, Colossians 1:22, Jude 1:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 125:4 - upright Malachi 2:6 - law Mark 10:14 - for Romans 8:4 - That 1 Peter 2:1 - guile 1 Peter 2:22 - guile

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.
Genesis 14:11
Then they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all.
Genesis 14:23
that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, "I have made Abram rich'--
Genesis 15:20
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Deuteronomy 1:4
after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth Joshua 12:4).">[fn] in Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. [fn] Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
Deuteronomy 3:20
until the LORD has given rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.'
Deuteronomy 3:22
You must not fear them, for the LORD your God Himself fights for you.'
Joshua 12:4
The other king was Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in their mouth was found no guile,.... Or "a lie", as the Complutensian edition, the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions read; by which may be meant idolatry, for idols and idolatrous practices are often called lies, and lying vanities; see Jeremiah 16:19; and the sense is, that the superstition and idolatry of the church of Rome were not among them: or it may design false doctrine, and the meaning be, that they did not speak lies in hypocrisy, as the followers of antichrist do; nor were they given up to believe a lie, as they are: the generality of copies read, "no guile"; which is expressive of the sincerity of their words; there was no deceit nor hypocrisy in them; they did not speak with flattering lips to men, nor did they draw nigh to God with their mouths, when their hearts were far from him; they were Israelites indeed, like Nathanael, in whom was no guile; though not in so strict a sense, in which this phrase is used of Christ, 1 Peter 1:22;

for they are without fault before the throne of God; not as considered in themselves, as if they were entirely free from sin, and never committed any; though it might be true of them, that in general they were of unblemished lives and conversations, that is, not guilty of any notorious and scandalous crimes; but rather the sense is, that they were without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, as being washed in the blood of Christ, and so cleansed from all sin, and as being justified by his righteousness from all iniquity; and so were before the throne of God, and in the sight of divine justice, unblamable and unreproveable; see #Jude 24 Col 1:22; the phrase, "before the throne of God", is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, and in the Complutensian edition.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And in their mouth was found no guile - No deceit, fraud, hypocrisy. They were sincerely and truly what they professed to be - the children of God. This is the last characteristic which is given of them as redeemed, and it is not necessary to say that this is always represented as one of the characteristics of the true children of God. See the notes on John 1:47.

For they are without fault before the throne of God - The word here rendered “without fault” - ἄμωμοι amōmoi - means, properly, “spotless, without blemish,” 1 Peter 1:19. See the notes on Colossians 1:22. This cannot be construed as meaning that they were by nature pure and holy, but only that they were pure as they stood before the throne of God in heaven - “having washed their robes, and made them pure in the blood of the Lamb.” See the notes on Revelation 7:14. It will be certainly true that all who stand there will be, in fact, pure, for nothing impure or unholy shall enter there, Revelation 21:27.

The “design” of this portion of the chapter was evidently to comfort those to whom the book was addressed, and, in the same way, to comfort all the children of God in times of persecution and trial. Those living in the time of John were suffering persecution, and, in the previous chapters, he had described more fearful trials yet to come on the church. In these trials, therefore, present and prospective, there was a propriety in fixing the thoughts on the final triumph of the redeemed - that glorious state in heaven where all persecution shall cease, and where all the ransomed of the Lord shall stand before his throne. What could be better suited than this view to sustain the souls of the persecuted and the sorrowful? And how often since in the history of the church in the dark times of religious declension and of persecution - has there been occasion to seek consolation in this bright view of heaven? How often in the life of each believer, when sorrows come upon him like a flood, and earthly consolation is gone, is there occasion to look to that blessed world where all the redeemed shall stand before God; where all tears shall be wiped away from every face; and where there shall be the assurance that the last pang has been endured, and that the soul is to be happy forever?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 14:5. In their mouth was found no guile — When brought before kings and rulers they did not dissemble, but boldly confessed the Lord Jesus.


 
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