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He has made us a Kingdom of priests for God his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
Revelation 1:6 · New Living Translation
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  • WEB and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • KJV And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • BSB who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
  • NKJV and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • NASB and He made us into a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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Quick answer

Christ has made his people a kingdom and priests to God, and to him belongs eternal glory and dominion. It matters because believers share in Christ's reign and access to God.

Overview

Echoing Exodus 19:6, the redeemed are constituted a kingdom of priests, given direct access to God and a royal calling. This doxology ascribes everlasting glory and dominion to Christ, affirming his deity by directing worship to him. The believer's identity flows from Christ's finished work, not personal merit.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Rev 5:10and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
  • Rev 20:6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
  • Exod 19:6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
  • 1 Pet 2:5–9You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Isa 61:6But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.
  • Rom 11:36For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
  • Rev 5:12–14saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
  • 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • Rev 4:11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
  • Phil 2:11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Dan 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
  • Jude 1:25to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
  • Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Ps 72:18–19Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
  • Rom 15:6that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • John 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
  • 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
  • 1 Tim 6:16who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
  • 1 Pet 5:11To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

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Christ at the center

Revelation ends the story with the slain-yet-standing Lamb who is worthy, the Lion of Judah, the Alpha and Omega, the returning King who makes all things new and dwells with his people forever.

How Revelation 1:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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