Revelation 2:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

New Living Translation
Repent of your sin, or I will come to you suddenly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

English Standard Version
Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Berean Study Bible
Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

NASB 1995
'Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

NASB 1977
‘Repent therefore; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Amplified Bible
Therefore repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will]; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war and fight against them with the sword of My mouth [in judgment].

Christian Standard Bible
So repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Turn back! If you don't, I will come quickly and fight against these people. And my words will cut like a sword.

Good News Translation
Now turn from your sins! If you don't, I will come to you soon and fight against those people with the sword that comes out of my mouth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So return to me and change the way you think and act, or I will come to you quickly and wage war against them with the sword from my mouth.

International Standard Version
So repent. If you don't, I will come to you quickly and wage war against them with the sword of my mouth.

NET Bible
Therefore, repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of my mouth.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

New King James Version
Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

King James 2000 Bible
Repent; or else I will come unto you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

New Heart English Bible
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

World English Bible
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

American King James Version
Repent; or else I will come to you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

American Standard Version
Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

A Faithful Version
Repent! For if you do not repent, I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Darby Bible Translation
Repent therefore: but if not, I come to thee quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword of my mouth.

English Revised Version
Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Repent; or else I will come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Repent thy selfe, or els I will come vnto thee shortly, and will fight against them with the sworde of my mouth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Repent, or els I wyll come vnto thee shortly, and wyll fyght agaynst them with the sworde of my mouth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But be couerted, or elles I wil come vnto the shortly, and wil fight agaynste the with the swearde of my mouth.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
But be converted or elles I will come vnto the shortly and will fyght agaynste the with thes wearde of my mouth
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Convert! And if not, I come to you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore repent! But if not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
'Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Smith's Literal Translation
Repent; and if not, I come to thee swiftly, and will wage war with them with the sword of my mouth.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Repent therefore! And if not, I am coming quickly to you and will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
In like manner do penance: if not, I will come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
So do penance to the same extent. If you do less, I will come to you quickly and I will fight against these ones with the sword of my mouth.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Repent therefore, or else I shall come upon you at once, and I shall make war with them with the sword of my mouth.”

Lamsa Bible
Repent; or else I will come to you very soon, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Repent, therefore; if not, I will come to you quickly, and I will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Godbey New Testament
Repent; otherwise I am coming to you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Haweis New Testament
Repent! but if not, I am coming to thee quickly, and will war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Mace New Testament
repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Weymouth New Testament
Repent, at once; or else I will come to you quickly, and will make war upon them with the sword which is in My mouth.

Worrell New Testament
Repent, therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and will make war with them with the sword of My mouth.

Worsley New Testament
Repent therefore---if not, I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword that goeth out of my mouth.
















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