Revelation 4:9
Good News Translation
The four living creatures sing songs of glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever. When they do so,

New Revised Standard Version
And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Contemporary English Version
The living creatures kept praising, honoring, and thanking the one who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever.

New American Bible
Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever:

when.

Revelation 5:13,14 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard all saying: To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb, benediction and honour and glory and power, for ever and ever. . . .

Revelation 7:11,12 And all the angels stood round about the throne and the ancients and the four living creatures. And they fell down before the throne upon their faces and adored God, . . .

who.

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Revelation 5:14 And the four living creatures said: Amen. And the four and twenty ancients fell down on their faces and adored him that liveth for ever and ever.

Revelation 10:6 And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things which are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That time shall be no longer.

Revelation 15:7 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

Exodus 15:18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

Psalm 48:14 For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

Hebrews 7:8,25 And here indeed, men that die receive tithes: but there, he hath witness that he liveth. . . .

Context
Worship of the Creator
8And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. 9And when those living creatures gave glory and honour and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever: 10The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on the throne and adored him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:40
I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

Psalm 47:8
God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

Isaiah 6:1
In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.

Daniel 4:34
Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man that was clothed in linen, that stood upon the waters of the river, when he had lifted up his right hand, and his left hand to heaven, and had sworn by him that liveth for ever, that it should be unto a time, and times, and half a time. And when the scattering of the band of the holy people shall be accomplished, all these things shall be finished.

Revelation 1:18
And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Revelation 4:2
And immediately I was in the spirit. And behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne one sitting.

Revelation 4:8
And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Revelation 5:1
And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 6:16
And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:15
Therefore, they are before the throne of God: and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell over them.

Revelation 10:6
And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things which are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That time shall be no longer.

Revelation 15:7
And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

Revelation 21:5
And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me: Write. For these words are most faithful and true.

Revelation 4:8
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