Revelation 3:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

Watchful

Strengthen

Acts 18:23

Thy works

Matthew 23:5

General references

Matthew 25:7

Mark 13:33

1 Corinthians 11:31

Bible References

Watchful

"See, I am coming like a thief. How blessed is the person who remains alert and keeps his clothes on! He won't have to go naked and let others see his shame."

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge. They are all dumb dogs they cannot bark. They keep on dreaming and lying around, and they're lovers of sleep!

"Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; all day and all night they won't remain silent. You who make mention of the LORD, take no rest,

"As certainly as I'm alive and living, my sheep have truly become victims, food for all of the wild animals because there are no shepherds. My shepherds did not go searching for my flock. Instead, the shepherds fed themselves, and my flock they would not feed!'

for I am now raising up a shepherd in the land who will neither search for the lost, nor care for the young, nor fix the broken, nor sustain the healthy. Instead, he will devour the meat of the best of the sheep, tearing off their hoofs."

"So keep on watching, because you don't know on what day your Lord is coming.

So keep on watching, because you don't know the day or the hour."

Be careful! Watch out! Because you don't know when the time will come.

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you

Because everything will soon come to an end, be sensible and clear-headed, so you can pray.

Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the Devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Strengthen

However, I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

Therefore charge Joshua to be doubly strong, because he will lead this people and cause them to inherit the land that you'll see.'

A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering knees.

and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

Strengthen the feeble hands, and support the stumbling knees.

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Thy works

because as Solomon grew older, his wives turned his affections away after other gods, and his heart was not fully as devoted to the LORD his God as his father David's heart had been.

He practiced the same sins that his father committed before he was born. Unlike his ancestor David, his heart never became devoted to the LORD his God.

He practiced what the LORD considered to be right, but not with a perfect heart.

"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.

TEKEL: You've been weighed on the scales and you don't measure up.

So whenever you give to the poor, don't blow a trumpet before you like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they will be praised by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!

"They do everything to be seen by people. They increase the size of their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.

General references

Then all the bridesmaids woke up and got their lamps ready.

Be careful! Watch out! Because you don't know when the time will come.

But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged.