Revelation 2:28

Young's Literal Translation

and I will give to him 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 Living Translation
They will have the same authority I received from my Father, and I will also give them 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.

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 `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass; <sup>19</sup> I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last [are] more than the first. <sup>20</sup> `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat; ²¹ and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform; ²² lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works, ²³ and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works. ²⁴ `And to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as have not this teaching, and who did not know the depths of the Adversary, as they say; I will not put upon you other burden; ²⁵ but that which ye have -- hold ye, till I may come; ²⁶ and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron -- as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken -- as I also have received from my Father;

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.