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Revelation 15:1

Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.

2 And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

3 and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

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BSB
Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.
KJV
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
WEB
I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
ASV
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having seven plagues, [which are] the last, for in them is finished the wrath of God.
DARBY
And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels having seven plagues, the last; for in them the fury of God is completed.
BLB
And I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels having seven plagues—the last, because in them the wrath of God was completed.
ÅB
Og jeg så et annet tegn i himmelen, stort og underfullt: syv engler som hadde de syv siste plager; for med dem er Guds vrede fullendt.
OTB
Jeg så et annet stort og underfullt tegn i himmelen: syv engler med de syv siste plager, for med dem er Guds vrede fullbyrdet.
B1930
Og jeg så et annet tegn i himmelen, stort og underfullt: syv engler som hadde de syv siste plager; for med dem er Guds vrede fullendt.

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  • Leviticus 26:21

    If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

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  • Revelation 15:6–7

    And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.

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  • Daniel 4:2–3

    I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

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  • Revelation 21:9

    Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

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  • Revelation 19:15

    And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

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  • Matthew 13:41–42

    The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.

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  • Revelation 14:19

    So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.

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  • Daniel 12:6–7

    One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”

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