Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Revelation 12 :: New International Version (NIV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

The Woman and the Dragon

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:1 - A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:2 - She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:3 - Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:4 - Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:5 - She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[fn] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:6 - The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:7 - Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:8 - But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:9 - The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:10 - Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:11 - They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:12 - Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:13 - When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:14 - The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:15 - Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:16 - But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:17 - Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
Psalm 2:9
BLB Footnotes
Some translations put the Greek phrase represented as "The dragon stood on the shore of the sea" in Rev 12:17, Rev 12:18, or Rev 13:1.  
NIV

HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.
Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Revelation Chapter 12 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras