Revelation 21:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that overcometh shall inherit all things;a and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. ”

• Revelation 21:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He that overcometh - See the notes on Revelation 2:7 . Shall inherit all things - Be an heir of God in all things. See the notes on Romans 8:17 . Compare Revelation 2:7 , Revelation 2:11...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  ( a) The Distant View of the City. Revelation 21:1 . cf. Isaiah 65:17 . sea is no more: To the apostolic age the ocean spoke of separation and isolation.. For this element of unrest, this f...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  overcometh. Last of seventeen occurances in Rev. See Revelation 2:7 and App-197. inherit. Greek. kleronomeo. Only here in Rev. all. The texts read "these". son. App-108.

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• Revelation 21:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Inherit all things - Here he had no inheritance; there he shall inherit the kingdom of heaven, and be with...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I saw a new heaven and a new earth, &c.— A new heaven and a new earth succeed in the room of the first heaven and first earth, which passed away at the general judgment, ch. Revelation 20:...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. He that overcometh. Another aspect of the believer's life: conflict with sin, Satan, and the world....

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• Revelation 21:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Holy City The enemies of the Lamb have been conquered. The Judgment is over. The old condition of things has passed away: cp. Revelation 20:11 . Now St. John sees in a vision the blissful glo...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He that overcometh shall inherit all things... — Rather, He that conquereth shall inherit these things; and I will be to him God, and he shall be to me a son. The general promise of Revelation 2...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XVII. THE NEW JERUSALEM. REV. Revelation 21:1-27 ; Revelation 22:1-5 . THE first part of the final triumph of the Lamb has been accomplished, but the second has still to be unfolded. W...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “A New Heaven and a New Earth” Revelation 21:1-8 Here is a vision of the new creation. This is the “restitution of all things” to which Peter refers in Acts 3:21 , and the deliverance of creat...

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• Revelation 21:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and he now observes the resultant order. The holy city appears. Toward a city of God men had looked through long generations. Now it...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (8) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerer...

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• Revelation 21:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He that overcometh ,.... All spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, the antichristian beast, his image, mark, and number of his name; who is more than a conqueror through Christ; one that per...

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• Revelation 21:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Ver. 7. He that overcometh ] Gr. "He that is overcoming," or not yielding, though he hath not yet overc...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And he “that sat upon the throne” said to me, It is done All that the prophets have spoken is fulfilled. This is the consummation of all things: and now all the promises of God, and the desires o...

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• Revelation 21:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Heaven and New Earth Revelation 20:11 has indicated that at the time of the Great White Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. Now John sees a new heaven and a new earth, and the ear...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The New Jerusalem. A. D.  95.       1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven an...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He that overcometh, shall inherit all things: God revealed this to John almost sixteen hundred years since; and how long it shall be before this glorious time shall come, God alone knows: the most...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.' This is the focus of the whole book, the overcomer. The letters of the seven churches are written for the...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE NEW JERUSALEM CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES “NOW is sealed the eternal doom of the dragon, beast, false prophet, and all their followers; yea, and of all who resemble them in the temper of...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Revelation 21:6-8 This chapter speaks of the winding up of God's dealings with the world, and of the final outcome of that process of trial and discipline which has been going on throughout the lo...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Revelation 21:1 . And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, sev...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Revelation 21:1 . I saw a new heaven and a new earth. This was a welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. Subterranean fires are burning and wasting it beneath our feet, fires everfeeding...

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• Revelation 21:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Revelation 21:1 And I saw. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. Revelation 20:11 , etc.). Having described the origin and progress of evil in the world, the final over...

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• Revelation 21:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Seventh Vision: Of the Heavenly Jerusalem. The prelude:

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• Revelation 21:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 3:21-23 ; 1 John 3:1-3 ; 1 Peter 1:3 ; 1 Peter 1:4 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; 1 Samuel 2:8 ; Hebrews 8:10 ; Isaiah 65:9 ; Mark 10:17 ; Matthew 19:29 ; Matthew 25:34 ; Proverbs 3:35 ;...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Marriage of the Lamb Revelation 19:1-10 ; Revelation 21:1-27 and Revelation 22:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diff...

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• Revelation 21:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He that overcometh — Which is more than, "he that thirsteth." Shall inherit these things — Which I have made new. I will be his God, and he shall be my son — Both in the Hebrew and Greek language,...

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