Revelation 7:3

7:3 “Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

Revelation 10:2

10:2 He held in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land.

Revelation 21:1

A New Heaven and a New Earth

21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more.


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

tn Grk “and having.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronoun “he.”

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

tn For the translation of ἀπέρχομαι (apercomai; here ἀπῆλθαν [aphlqan]) L&N 13.93 has “to go out of existence – ‘to cease to exist, to pass away, to cease.’”