Revelation 22:3-7

22:3 And there will no longer be any curse, ¹  and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. ²  His ³  servants ⁴  will worship ⁵  him, 22:4 and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 22:5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

A Final Reminder

22:6 Then ⁶  the angel ⁷  said to me, “These words are reliable ⁸  and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants ⁹  what must happen soon.”

22:7 (Look! I am coming soon!

Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy expressed in this book.) ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Or “be anything accursed” (L&N 33.474).

² tn Grk “in it”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Grk “city, and his.” Although this is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, a new sentence was started here in the translation because of the introduction of the Lamb’s followers.

⁴ tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

⁵ tn Or “will serve.”

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the angel mentioned in 21:9, 15; 22:1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Grk “faithful.”

⁹ tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

¹¹ sn These lines are parenthetical, forming an aside to the narrative. The speaker here is the Lord Jesus Christ himself rather than the narrator.