Revelation 3:7-13

Message to Philadelphia

7 "And to the angel of the church in 1Philadelphia write: 2He who is holy, 3who is true, who has 4the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
8 '5I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you 6an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and 7have not denied My name.
9 'Behold, I will cause those of 8the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie -I will make them 9come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that 10I have loved you.
10 'Because you have 11kept the word of 12My perseverance, 13I also will keep you from the hour of 14testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole 15world, to test 16those who dwell on the earth.
11 '17I am coming quickly; 18hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your 19crown.
12 '20He who overcomes, I will make him a 21pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the 22name of My God, and 23the name of the city of My God, 24the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My 25new name.
13 '26He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

Cross References 26

  • 1. Revelation 1:11
  • 2. Revelation 6:10
  • 3. 1 John 5:20; Revelation 3:14; Revelation 19:11
  • 4. Job 12:14; Isaiah 22:22; Matthew 16:19; Revelation 1:18
  • 5. Revelation 3:1
  • 6. Acts 14:27
  • 7. Revelation 2:13
  • 8. Revelation 2:9
  • 9. Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 60:14
  • 10. Isaiah 43:4; John 17:23
  • 11. John 17:6; Revelation 3:8
  • 12. Revelation 1:9
  • 13. 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Peter 2:9
  • 14. Revelation 2:10
  • 15. Matthew 24:14; Revelation 16:14
  • 16. Revelation 6:10; Revelation 8:13; Revelation 11:10; Revelation 13:8, 14; Revelation 17:8
  • 17. Revelation 1:3; Revelation 22:7, 12, 20
  • 18. Revelation 2:25
  • 19. Revelation 2:10
  • 20. Revelation 3:5
  • 21. 1 Kings 7:21; Jeremiah 1:18; Galatians 2:9
  • 22. Revelation 14:1; Revelation 22:4
  • 23. Ezekiel 48:35; Revelation 21:2
  • 24. Galatians 4:26; Hebrews 13:14; Revelation 21:2, 10
  • 25. Isaiah 62:2; Revelation 2:17
  • 26. Revelation 3:6

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