Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Study Note
Study Note
The sixth beatitude of Revelation — 'blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates' — connects the eschatological access to Eden's tree of life with the purification that the Lamb's blood provides. The image of 'washing robes' draws on 7:14 ('they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb'), making the eschatological access contingent on the atonement rather than on moral achievement. The 'tree of life' returns from Genesis 2-3, where access was blocked after the fall (Genesis 3:24), and from Revelation 22:2, where it stands in the renewed city bearing fruit for the healing of the nations. The verse closes the beatitude series and the book's narrative of creation-fall-redemption-restoration with a picture of covenant renewal as the permanent reversal of the original expulsion.
Other Translations
Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
Cross References
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