Revelation 2:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

Satan's

Revelation 2:9

Revelation 3:9

Thou holdest

My name

James 2:7

Denied

Was

Acts 22:20

General references

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

Satan's

"I know your afflictions and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Thou holdest

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you do not wake up, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come to you.

but test all things; hold firmly that which is good.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope.

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

My name

"I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."

Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

Denied

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Was

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

General references

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against sin;