They didn’t prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven.
Parallel translations
- KJV And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
- BSB But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels.
- NKJV but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.
- NASB and they did not prevail, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.
- NLT And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven.
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- Ps 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
- Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
- Jude 1:6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
- Jer 1:19They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
- Ps 13:4Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
- Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Ps 129:2many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Rom 8:31–39What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Job 8:18If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
- Job 7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- Job 27:21–23The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
- Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
- Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
- Job 20:9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
- Ps 118:10–13All the nations surrounded me, but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
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