Revelation 12 (NET)

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Revelation 12:1¹Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 21:25 Eph 5:32 Isa 62:3 Luke 21:11 Isa 54:5-7 Isa 60:19-20 Ps 84:11 Song 6:10 Zech 9:16 2 Chr 32:31

Revelation 12:3³Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 17:12 Dan 7:24 Rev 12:9 Dan 7:20 Rev 17:16 Rev 12:1 Rev 12:4 Rev 17:3-4 Rev 17:7 Rev 20:2

Revelation 12:4⁴Now the dragon’s tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 8:9-12 Rev 12:9 John 8:44 Rev 12:2-3 1 Pet 5:8 Exod 1:16 Matt 2:3-16 Rev 8:7 Rev 9:10 Rev 9:19

Revelation 12:5⁵So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 19:15 Rev 2:26-27 Ps 2:9-10 Rev 12:2 Isa 7:14 Matt 1:25 Mic 5:3 Rev 11:12 2 Cor 12:2 Jer 31:22

Revelation 12:6⁶and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 11:2-3 Rev 13:5 Rev 12:14 1 Kgs 17:3-6 Rev 12:4 1 Kgs 19:4-8 Matt 4:11 1 Kgs 17:9-16

Revelation 12:7⁷Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jude 1:9 Dan 12:1 Eph 6:12 2 Pet 2:4 Dan 10:13 Dan 10:21 Rev 20:2 Rev 12:3-4 Rev 12:9 2 Cor 12:7

Revelation 12:8⁸But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 37:10 Rev 12:11 Jer 1:19 Jude 1:6 Acts 1:25 Jer 5:22 Job 20:9 Job 27:21-23 Job 7:10 Job 8:18

Revelation 12:9⁹So that huge dragon—the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world—was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 10:18 John 12:31 Rev 20:10 1 John 5:19 Isa 14:12 2 Cor 4:4 Job 2:1-2 Rev 20:2-3 Gen 3:1 2 Thess 2:9-11

Revelation 12:10¹⁰Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, “The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority of his Christ, have now come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, the one who accuses them day and night before our God, has been thrown down.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 22:31 Zech 3:1-2 Rev 11:15 Dan 2:44 1 Chr 29:11 Matt 28:18 Job 1:11 Job 1:9 2 Cor 12:9 Ps 2:8-12

Revelation 12:11¹¹But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 10:3-5 John 16:33 1 John 5:5 1 Cor 15:57 Rom 16:20 Acts 20:24 Rev 2:26 Heb 2:14-15 1 John 4:4 Rom 8:33-39

Revelation 12:12¹²Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 49:13 Ps 96:11-13 Rev 18:20 Rev 8:13 Rev 10:6 Luke 15:10 Ps 148:1-4 Rev 19:1-7 Rev 11:10 Rev 9:12

Revelation 12:13¹³Now when the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 3:15 John 16:33 Rev 12:3-5 Ps 37:12-14

Revelation 12:14¹⁴But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of—away from the presence of the serpent—for a time, times, and half a time.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 19:4 Isa 40:31 Rev 12:6 Dan 12:7 Dan 7:25 Deut 32:11-12 Ps 55:6 Rev 11:2-3 Rev 17:3

Revelation 12:15¹⁵Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 8:7 Isa 59:19 Ps 18:4 Ps 65:7 Isa 28:2 Ps 93:3-4 Rev 17:15

Revelation 12:16¹⁶but the earth came to her rescue; the ground opened up and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:6 Exod 12:35-36

Revelation 12:17¹⁷So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, those who keep God’s commandments and hold to the testimony about Jesus.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 14:12 Gen 3:15 Rev 19:10 Rev 1:2 Rev 11:7 Rev 6:9 Rev 13:7 Dan 7:23-26 1 John 2:3 1 John 5:10

Revelation 12:18¹⁸And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

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