And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Parallel translations
- WEB They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- KJV And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
- NKJV and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- NASB and they *cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
- NLT And they were shouting with a great roar, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!”
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Quick answer
The multitude cries out that salvation belongs to God and to the Lamb. They ascribe their rescue entirely to God's saving work, not their own.
Overview
Their shout confesses that salvation is wholly the gift of God seated on the throne and of the Lamb who was slain. By joining God and the Lamb as the source of salvation, the praise again affirms Christ's deity. This is the answer to 6:17: those who can stand are those saved by grace through the Lamb.
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- Rev 19:1After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!
- Ps 3:8Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
- Isa 45:21Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
- Rev 12:10And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.
- Rev 22:3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.
- Eph 2:8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- Luke 3:6And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”
- John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Isa 43:11I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
- Jer 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
- Ps 68:19–20Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah
- Rev 21:5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
- Rev 5:7And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne.
- Rev 5:13–14And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”
- Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Hos 13:4Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
- Ps 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
- Rev 4:2–3At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
- Isa 45:15Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
- Rev 4:6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.
- Ps 37:39The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.
- Jonah 2:9But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
- John 4:22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
- John 1:36When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
- Rev 4:9–11And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever,
- Zech 4:7What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
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