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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Revelation 3 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Revelation 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/2.htm" title="Revelation 2">◄</a> Revelation 3 <a href="../revelation/4.htm" title="Revelation 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/revelation/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">To the Church in Sardis</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="red">“To the angel <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or messenger; also in verses 7 and 14">a</a></sup></span> of the church in Sardis write:</span></p><p class="emb"><span class="red">These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the sevenfold Spirit">b</a></sup></span> of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.</span></p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">To the Church in Philadelphia</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:</span></p><p class="emb"><span class="red">These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.</span></p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">To the Church in Laodicea</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:</span></p><p class="emb"><span class="red">These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.</span></p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.</span></p> <p class="emb"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>messenger</i>; also in verses 7 and 14</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, the sevenfold Spirit</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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