New American Standard Bible 2020

Revelation 3:1-4

1“To the angel of the church in 1Sardis write:

He who has 2 3the seven spirits of God and 4the seven stars, says this: ‘5I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, and yet you are 6dead. 2Be constantly alert, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. 3So 7remember 8what you have received and heard; and 9keep it, and 10repent. Then if you are not alert, 11I will come 12like a thief, and you will not know at 13what hour I will come to you. 4But you have a few 14 15people in 16Sardis who have not 17soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me 18in white, for they are worthy.

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Notes

1. Revelation 3:1 Rev 1:11 ↩
2. Revelation 3:1 Possibly a symbolic reference to the Holy Spirit in His fullness, or to seven key angels ↩
3. Revelation 3:1 Rev 1:4 ↩
4. Revelation 3:1 Rev 1:16 ↩
5. Revelation 3:1 Rev 2:2; 3:8, 15 ↩
6. Revelation 3:1 1 Tim 5:6 ↩
7. Revelation 3:3 Rev 2:5 ↩
8. Revelation 3:3 Lit how ↩
9. Revelation 3:3 Or follow ↩
10. Revelation 3:3 Rev 2:5 ↩
11. Revelation 3:3 Rev 2:5 ↩
12. Revelation 3:3 1 Thess 5:2; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 16:15 ↩
13. Revelation 3:3 Matt 24:43; Luke 12:39f ↩
14. Revelation 3:4 Lit names ↩
15. Revelation 3:4 Rev 11:13 ↩
16. Revelation 3:4 Rev 1:11 ↩
17. Revelation 3:4 Jude 23 ↩
18. Revelation 3:4 Eccl 9:8; Rev 3:5, 18; 4:4; 6:11; 7:9, 13f; 19:8, 14 ↩

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