Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

New American Standard Bible

May they be blotted out of the book of life
And may they not be recorded with the righteous.

King James Version

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Holman Bible

Let them be erased from the book of life
and not be recorded with the righteous.

International Standard Version

May they be erased from the Book of Life, and their names not be written with the righteous.

A Conservative Version

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Amplified


May they be blotted out of the book of life [and their lives come to an end]
And may they not be recorded with the righteous (those in right standing with God).

Bible in Basic English

Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

Darby Translation

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Julia Smith Translation

They shall be wiped off from the book of the living, and with the just they shall not be written.

King James 2000

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let them be blotted out of [the] book of [the] living, and let them not be recorded with [the] righteous.

Modern King James verseion

Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and not be written among the righteous.

NET Bible

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

New Heart English Bible

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

The Emphasized Bible

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And, with the righteous, let them not be enrolled.

Webster

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

World English Bible

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Youngs Literal Translation

They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.


Cross References

Ezekiel 13:9

And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

Philippians 4:3

Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Exodus 32:32-33

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

Hebrews 12:23

to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Revelation 3:5

He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 13:8

And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;

Isaiah 65:16

so that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

Hosea 1:9

And Jehovah'said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God .

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 22:19

and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

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