New American Standard Bible 2020

Revelation 3:1-8

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. 5 19The one who overcomes will be clothed the same way, in 20white garments; and I will not 21erase his name from the book of life, and 22I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 6 23The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

7“And to the angel of the church in 24Philadelphia write:

25He who is holy, 26who is true, who has 27the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

8‘28I know your 29deeds. Behold, I have put before you 30an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have followed My word, and 31have not denied My name.

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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 ↩
19. Revelation 3:5 Rev 2:7 ↩
20. Revelation 3:5 Rev 3:4 ↩
21. Revelation 3:5 Ex 32:32f; Ps 69:28; Luke 10:20; Rev 13:8; 17:8; 20:12, 15; 21:27 ↩
22. Revelation 3:5 Matt 10:32; Luke 12:8 ↩
23. Revelation 3:6 Rev 2:7 ↩
24. Revelation 3:7 Rev 1:11 ↩
25. Revelation 3:7 Rev 6:10 ↩
26. Revelation 3:7 1 John 5:20; Rev 3:14; 19:11 ↩
27. Revelation 3:7 Job 12:14; Is 22:22; Matt 16:19; Rev 1:18 ↩
28. Revelation 3:8 Rev 3:1 ↩
29. Revelation 3:8 Or deeds (behold...shut), that you have ↩
30. Revelation 3:8 Acts 14:27 ↩
31. Revelation 3:8 Rev 2:13 ↩

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