CINXE.COM

<!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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="/bmc//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="/revelation/">Revelation</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/revelation/3.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/revelation/3.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/revelation/3.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/revelation/3.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/revelation/3.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/revelation/3.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/revelation/3.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">To the Church in Sardis<p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: <p class="tab1stlinered"> These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> of God and the seven stars. <p class="tab1stlinered"> I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you. <A name="5"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels. <A name="7"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">To the Church in Philadelphia<p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: <p class="tab1stlinered"> These are the words of the One 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 class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="9"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. For you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you. <A name="11"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I am coming soon.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name. <A name="14"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">To the Church in Laodicea<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../colossians/2.htm">Colossians 2:1–5</a>)</span><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: <p class="tab1stlinered"> These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> of God’s creation. <A name="16"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth! <A name="18"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent. <A name="21"></a><p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. <p class="tab1stlinered"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>the sevenfold Spirit</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>scrape off</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> See <a href="../isaiah/22.htm#22">Isaiah 22:22</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>suddenly</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>quickly</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Or <i>Beginning</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Ruler</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Free <a href=http://berean.bible/downloads.htm>downloads</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible/licensing.htm>licensing</a> available. See also the <a href=http://literalbible.com>Berean Literal Bible</a> and <a href=http://interlinearbible.com>Berean Interlinear Bible</a>.<span class=p><br /><br /></span><a href=/>Bible Hub</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../revelation/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Revelation 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Revelation 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../revelation/4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Revelation 4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Revelation 4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>