Revelation 3:1
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
2 Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
3 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
- KJV
- And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
- WEB
- “And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
- ASV
- And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.
- DARBY
- And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
- BLB
- [“] And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says the One having the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and yet you are dead.
- ÅB
- Og skriv til engelen for menigheten i Sardes: Dette sier han som har de syv Guds ånder og de syv stjerner: Jeg vet om dine gjerninger, at du har navn av at du lever, og du er død.
- OTB
- “Skriv til engelen for menigheten i Sardes: Dette sier han som har de sju Guds ånder og de sju stjerner. Jeg vet om dine gjerninger; du har navn av å leve, men du er død.
- B1930
- Og skriv til engelen for menigheten i Sardes: Dette sier han som har de syv Guds ånder og de syv stjerner: Jeg vet om dine gjerninger, at du har navn av at du lever, og du er død.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Timothy 5:6
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
Read in contextJames 2:26
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Read in contextRevelation 1:4
John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne,
Read in contextColossians 2:13
When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,
Read in contextJude 1:12
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
Read in contextLuke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.
Read in contextRevelation 2:19
I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.
Read in contextEphesians 2:5
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
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