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Revelation 19:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
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Quick Meaning
This verse summons all God's servants, small and great, to praise.
Read It With
- Revelation 19:1-10
Read Revelation 19:5 with 19:1-10. This verse summons all God's servants, small and great, to praise. The complete unit's controlling movement is: Heavenly worship answers Babylon's fall, celebrates God's reign and the Lamb's marriage, identifies the bride's linen with granted righteous deeds, blesses the invited, and redirects John's attempted angel worship to God.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The preceding movement establishes: Revelation 18:21-24 established this prior movement: A millstone cast into the sea enacts Babylon's disappearance; music, craft, milling, light, and marriage cease because merchant power, deception, and the blood of prophets, saints, and earth's slain are found in her. This unit then contributes: Heavenly worship answers Babylon's fall, celebrates God's reign and the Lamb's marriage, identifies the bride's linen with granted righteous deeds, blesses the invited, and redirects John's attempted angel worship to God. The following movement develops: Revelation 19:11-16 continues the book through this next movement: Heaven opens to a faithful-and-true rider with hidden name, blood-dipped robe, heavenly followers, mouth-sword, iron rule, winepress, and supreme royal title. At Revelation 19:5, this verse summons all God's servants, small and great, to praise.
What Remains True
Revelation 19:5 shows that summons all God's servants, small and great, to praise; its faithful force remains governed by creator worship, the slain Lamb, truthful witness, patient endurance, justice, and new creation.
How It Can Shape Life
- Use Revelation 19:5 by attending to its actual contribution: it summons all God's servants, small and great, to praise. Before a modern analogy, explain this role inside Revelation 19:1-10, state the unit's uncertainty or first-century control, and refuse unsupported mapping or coercive imitation.
Continue in Context
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Read Revelation 19:1-10 — Heaven Praises Judgment and the Lamb's MarriageSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage.
Exact location: Revelation 19:1-10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Revelation.txt, 19:1-10
Open the Revelation Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Revelation with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual variants, imagery, cross-references, and stated alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible Revelation PDF, printed pp. 2408–2447, 19:1-10 and attached translator/textual notes
Open the official NET Revelation PDF ↗