Revelation 16:6

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Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

They have

For they are

Hebrews 10:29

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They have

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on those that dwell in the earth?

He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I marvelled with great surprise.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth.

for true and righteous are his judgments; for he has judged the great whore, who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his slaves at her hand.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh, in the blood of the slain and of the captives of the heads, in revenge as an enemy.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

And I will feed those that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Thus has thy Lord said, I AM thy God who pleads the cause of his people; Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

I have smitten your children in vain; they have received no correction; your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Mem For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

For with the judgment with which ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with the measure with which ye measure, ye shall be measured again.

And the husbandmen took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned another.

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

For they are

And the Gentiles were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou should give the reward unto thy slaves the prophets and to the saints and those that fear thy name, to the small and to the great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth.

Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your cause upon her.

Then the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city as ye have heard with your ears.

But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom much was committed, more will be asked of him.

Of how much greater punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden underfoot the Son of God and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

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and had turned their rivers into blood and their floods, that they could not drink.

As he loved the curse, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in the blessing, so let it be far from him.

added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

seeing it is a just thing with God to recompense tribulation to those that trouble you