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 said to him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will 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 we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

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

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest in prayer;

For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Poverty

The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance 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.

That in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, abounded to the riches of their liberality.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

The blasphemy

And many other things blasphemously they spoke against him.

And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

Which

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are descendants from Israel?

The synagogue

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and 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 corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

If any man's work abideth which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward.