Revelation 3:4
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.
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.
5 Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
- WEB
- Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
- ASV
- But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.
- DARBY
- But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.
- BLB
- But you have a few names in Sardis who did not soil their garments, and they will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy.
- ÅB
- Dog har du noen få navn i Sardes som ikke har smittet sine klær, og de skal gå med meg i hvite klær; for de er det verd.
- OTB
- Men du har noen få i Sardes som ikke har sølt til sine klær. De skal vandre med meg i hvite klær, for de er verdige.
- B1930
- Dog har du nogen få navn i Sardes som ikke har smittet sine klær, og de skal gå med mig i hvite klær; for de er det verd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 3:5
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
Read in contextRevelation 7:9
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 9:8
Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.
Read in contextRevelation 6:11
Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.
Read in contextRevelation 7:13–14
Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”
Read in contextRevelation 19:14
The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.
Read in contextRevelation 3:18
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.
Read in contextRevelation 4:4
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
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