Revelation 3:5

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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.

⁴ 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.

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.

⁷ To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
WEB: He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
ASV: He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
DARBY: He that overcomes, *he* shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
BLB: The one overcoming thus will be clothed in white garments. And I will never blot out his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

ÅB: Den som seirer, han skal slik bli kledd i hvite klær, og jeg vil ikke utslette hans navn av livsens bok, og jeg vil kjennes ved hans navn for min Far og for hans engler.
OTB: Den som seirer, skal bli kledd i hvite klær som dem, og jeg vil ikke utslette hans navn av livets bok, men jeg vil bekjenne hans navn for min Far og for hans engler.
B1930: Den som seirer, han skal således bli klædd i hvite klær, og jeg vil ikke utslette hans navn av livsens bok, og jeg vil kjennes ved hans navn for min Fader og for hans engler.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Matthew 10:32
Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.
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Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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Luke 12:8
I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
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Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
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Revelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
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Revelation 17:8
The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
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Psalms 69:28
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
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Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
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