Revelation 2:28

New Living Translation

They will have the same authority I received from my Father, and I will also give them the morning star!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
just as I have received this from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.

King James Version (1611)
And I will giue him the morning starre.

King James Version
And I will give him the morning star.

English Standard Version
And I will give him the morning star.

New American Standard Bible
and I will give him the morning star.

New Century Version
This is the same power I received from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and I will give him the morning star.

Berean Standard Bible
And I will give him the morning star.

Complete Jewish Bible
just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.

Darby Translation
and I will give to him the morning star.

Easy-to-Read Version
They will have the same power I received from my Father, and I will give them the morning star.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Euen as I receiued of my Father, so will I giue him the morning starre.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will give him the morning star.

Lexham English Bible
as I also have received from my Father, and I will give him the morning star.

Literal Translation
And I will give to him the Morning Star.

Amplified Bible
and I will give him the Morning Star.

American Standard Version
and I will give him the morning star.

Bible in Basic English
And I will give him the morning star.

Hebrew Names Version
and I will give him the morning star.

International Standard Version
Just as I have received authority from my Father, I will also give him the morning star.2 Peter 1:19; Revelation 22:16;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and I will give to him the morning star.

Murdock Translation
And I will give him the morning star.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen as I receaued of my father, so wyll I geue hym the mornyng starre.

English Revised Version
and I will give him the morning star.

World English Bible
and I will give him the morning star.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And I will give him the morning star.

Weymouth's New Testament
and I will give him the Morning Star.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as a vessel of a pottere, as also Y resseyuede of my fadir; and Y schal yyue to hym a morewe sterre.

Update Bible Version
as I also have received of my Father: and I will give him the morning star.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will give him the morning-star.

New English Translation
just as I have received the right to rule from my Father—and I will give him the morning star.

New King James Version
and I will give him the morning star.

New Life Bible
And I will give him the Morning Star.

New Revised Standard
even as I also received authority from my Father. To the one who conquers I will also give the morning star.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will give unto him the morning star.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As I also have received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star.

Revised Standard Version
and I will give him the morning star.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
eue so will I geve him ye mornynge starre.

Young's Literal Translation
and I will give to him the morning star.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so wil I geue him ye mornynge starre.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I will even give him the lustre of the morning-star.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They will have the same power as I got from my Dad and I will even give them the morning star. If you've got ears, listen to what the Spirit is telling you.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "Write this letter to the angel of the church in Thyatira. This is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes are like flames of fire, whose feet are like polished bronze: ¹⁹ "I know all the things you do. I have seen your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance. And I can see your constant improvement in all these things. ²⁰ "But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman—that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet—to lead my servants astray. She teaches them to commit sexual sin and to eat food offered to idols. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to turn away from her immorality. ²² "Therefore, I will throw her on a bed of suffering, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer greatly unless they repent and turn away from her evil deeds. ²³ I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches out the thoughts and intentions of every person. And I will give to each of you whatever you deserve. ²⁴ "But I also have a message for the rest of you in Thyatira who have not followed this false teaching (‘deeper truths,' as they call them—depths of Satan, actually). I will ask nothing more of you ²⁵ except that you hold tightly to what you have until I come. ²⁶ To all who are victorious, who obey me to the very end, To them I will give authority over all the nations. ²⁷ They will rule the nations with an iron rod and smash them like clay pots.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Revelation 22:16, Luke 1:78, Luke 1:79, 2 Peter 1:19

Reciprocal: Job 38:7 - the morning Isaiah 14:12 - Lucifer Malachi 4:2 - the Sun 1 John 5:10 - hath the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will give him the morning star. So Christ is called,

Revelation 22:16; and here it designs an illustrious appearance of Christ at the close of this church state, and a communication of much light and grace from him, which introduced the Sardian church state, or the reformation by Luther, Calvin, c. which is the phosphorus, or morning star, to the spiritual reign of Christ under the Philadelphian church state which will be the bright, clear, day of the Gospel, when the present twilight, which is between the appearance of the morning star and that glorious day, will be removed: for by this morning star is not meant the glory that shall be put upon the bodies of the saints in the resurrection morn; nor the heavenly glory itself, or the hope of it; but the dawning of the latter day glory, which began at the Reformation, and is promised the faithful professors in the Thyatirian church state, who lived in the darkness of Popery.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will give him the morning star - The “morning star” is that bright planet - Venus - which at some seasons of the year appears so beautifully in the east, leading on the morning - the harbinger of the day. It is one of the most beautiful objects in nature, and is susceptible of a great variety of uses for illustration. It appears as the darkness passes away; it is an indication that the morning comes; it is intermingled with the first rays of the light of the sun; it seems to be a herald to announce the coming of that glorious luminary; it is a pledge of the faithfulness of God. In which of these senses, if any, it is referred to here, is not stated; nor is it said what is implied by its being given to him that overcomes. It would seem to be used here to denote a bright and brilliant ornament; something with which he who “overcame” would be adorned, resembling the bright star of the morning. It is observable that it is not said that he would make him like the morning star, as in Daniel 12:3; nor that he would be compared with the morning star, like the king of Babylon, Isaiah 14:12; nor that he would resemble a star which Balaam says he saw in the distant future, Numbers 24:17. The idea seems to be, that the Saviour would give him something that would resemble that morning planet in beauty and splendor - perhaps meaning that it would be placed as a gem in his diadem, and would sparkle on his brow - bearing some such relation to him who is called “the Sun of Righteousness,” as the morning star does to the glorious sun on his rising. If so, the meaning would be that he would receive a beautiful ornament, bearing a near relation to the Redeemer himself as a bright sun - a pledge that the darkness was past - but one whose beams would melt away into the superior light of the Redeemer himself, as the beams of the morning star are lost in the superior glory of the sun.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. And I will give him the morning star. — He shall have the brightest and most glorious empire, next to that of Christ himself. And it is certain that the Roman empire under Constantine the Great was the brightest emblem of the latter day glory which has ever yet been exhibited to the world. It is well known that sun, moon, and stars are emblems, in prophetic language, of empires, kingdoms, and states. And as the morning star is that which immediately precedes the rising of the sun, it probably here intends an empire which should usher in the universal sway of the kingdom of Christ.

Ever since the time of Constantine the light of true religion has been increasingly diffused, and is shining more and more unto the perfect day.