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And they were shouting with a great roar, “Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!”
Revelation 7:10 · New Living Translation
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  • 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.
  • BSB And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to 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.”

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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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 26

  • Rev 19:1After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
  • Ps 3:8Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
  • Isa 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
  • Rev 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
  • Rev 22:3There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.
  • Eph 2:8for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
  • Luke 3:6All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”
  • John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • Isa 43:11I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
  • Jer 3:23Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
  • Ps 68:19–20Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
  • Rev 21:5He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”
  • Rev 5:7Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
  • Rev 5:13–14I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”
  • Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Hos 13:4“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.
  • Ps 115:1Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
  • Rev 4:2–3Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
  • Isa 45:15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
  • Rev 4:6Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
  • Ps 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
  • Jonah 2:9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
  • John 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
  • John 1:36and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
  • Rev 4:9–11When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
  • Zech 4:7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”

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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 7:10 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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