Revelation 2:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Tribulation

Poverty

The blasphemy

Luke 22:65

Acts 26:11

1 Timothy 1:13

Which

Romans 2:17

Romans 9:6

The synagogue

Revelation 3:9

General references

Matthew 6:20

1 Corinthians 3:14

Bible References

Tribulation

And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

Poverty

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

The blasphemy

And many other things spake they against him, reviling him.

And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

Which

But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

The synagogue

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

General references

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.