Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, 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.

American Standard 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.

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 your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.


Cross References

Ezekiel 13:9

And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the register of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

Luke 10:20

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

Philippians 4:3

And I entreat you also, true yokefellow, help those women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other of my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

Exodus 32:32-33

Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.

Hebrews 12:23

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

Revelation 3:5

He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white clothing; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 13:8

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone that is recorded among the living in Jerusalem:

Isaiah 65:16

That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

Hosea 1:9

Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Revelation 20:12-15

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those 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 out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

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