Revelation 22:18

PLUS

This resource is exclusive for PLUS Members

Upgrade now and receive:

  • Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy uninterrupted access.
  • Exclusive Commentaries: Dive deeper with in-depth insights.
  • Advanced Study Tools: Powerful search and comparison features.
  • Premium Guides & Articles: Unlock for a more comprehensive study.
Upgrade to Plus
Revelation 22:18

Examples of those who add are the numerous cults that accept other writings as inspired and authoritative and place them on equal grounds with the Bible (i.e., the Mormons with The Book of Mormon and Christian Science with their Key to the Scriptures).7

Some, such as Mohammed, have led whole nations away from the truth, and the total effect of all of them has been incalculably tragic.8

Notes

1 “Philo of Alexandria, a contemporary of the apostles, attested thus: ‘The Jews would die ten thousand times rather than to permit one single word to be altered of their Scriptures.’ ”—Rene Pache, The Inspiration & Authority of Scripture (Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing Company, 1969), 164.

2 NT occurrences of the phrase, it is written : Mtt. Mat. 2:5; Mat. 4:4, Mat. 4:6-7, Mat. 4:10; Mat. 11:10; Mat. 21:13; Mat. 26:24, Mat. 26:31; Mark Mark 1:2; Mark 7:6; Mark 9:13; Mark 14:21, Mark 14:27; Luke Luke 2:23; Luke 3:4; Luke 4:4, Luke 4:8, Luke 4:10; Luke 7:27; Luke 19:46; Luke 24:46; John John 6:31, John 6:45; John 12:14; Acts Acts 1:20; Acts 7:42; Acts 15:15; Acts 23:5; Rom. Rom. 1:17; Rom. 2:24; Rom. 3:4, Rom. 3:10; Rom. 4:17; Rom. 8:36; Rom. 9:13, Rom. 9:33; Rom. 10:15; Rom. 11:8, Rom. 11:26; Rom. 12:19; Rom. 14:11; Rom. 15:3, Rom. 15:9, Rom. 15:21; 1Cor. 1Cor. 1:19, 1Cor. 1:31; 1Cor. 2:9; 1Cor. 3:19; 1Cor. 9:9; 1Cor. 10:7; 1Cor. 14:21; 1Cor. 15:45; 2Cor. 2Cor. 8:15; 2Cor. 9:9; Gal. Gal. 3:10, Gal. 3:13; Gal. 4:22, Gal. 4:27; Heb. Heb. 10:7; 1Pe. 1Pe. 1:16.

3 John MacArthur, Revelation 12-22 : The MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 2000), Rev. 22:10.

4 Henry Morris, The Revelation Record (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1983), Rev. 22:10.

5 Mal Couch, “Soteriology in the Book of Revelation,” in Mal Couch, ed., A Bible Handbook to Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2001), 170.

6 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, rev ed. (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries, 2003), 547.

7 Ibid.

8 Morris, The Revelation Record, Rev. 22:18.