Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"I know what you've been doing. You are known for being alive, but you are dead. Be alert, and strengthen the things that are left, which are about to die. I note that your actions are incomplete before my God.
A Conservative Version
Become thou watchful, and strengthen the remaining things that thou were going to throw away, for I have not found thy works made complete before my God.
American Standard Version
Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Wake up, and strengthen what remains [i.e., those few in the church who were trying to stay faithful], who are about to die. For I have not found [any] of your deeds to be complete before my God.
Anderson New Testament
Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works perfect before God.
Bible in Basic English
Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.
Common New Testament
Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
be watchful, and fortify the rest that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Darby Translation
Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die, for I have not found thy works complete before my God.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, which are ready to die: for I have not found your works filled up in the sight of God.
Godbey New Testament
Be you watchful, and strengthen the remaining things, which are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God.
Goodspeed New Testament
Wake up, and strengthen what is left, although it is already on the point of death, for I have found nothing you have done complete in the sight of my God.
John Wesley New Testament
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, which are ready to die; for I have not found thy works compleat before my God.
King James 2000
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Be on the alert and strengthen the remaining [things] that are about to die, for I have not found your works completed before my God.
Modern King James verseion
Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found your works being fulfilled before God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Be awake, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Moffatt New Testament
Wake up, rally what is still left to you, though it is on the very point of death; for I find nothing you have done is complete in the eyes of my God.
Montgomery New Testament
Be continually on the watch, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die. For I have not found your works perfected before my God.
NET Bible
Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.
New Heart English Bible
Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which were about to die, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
Noyes New Testament
Be watchful, and strengthen the remaining things, that were ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect before my God.
Sawyer New Testament
Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God.
The Emphasized Bible
Become thou watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, that were about to die; for I have not found thy works fulfilled before my God.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Be vigilant and strengthen the things which remain, which are ready to die; for I have not found thy works complete before God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God.
Webster
Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Weymouth New Testament
Rouse yourself and keep awake, and strengthen those things which remain but have well-nigh perished; for I have found no doings of yours free from imperfection in the sight of My God.
Williams New Testament
Wake up, and strengthen what is left, although it is on the very point of dying, for I have not found a thing that you have done complete in the sight of God.
World English Bible
Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
Worrell New Testament
Become watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your works complete before My God.
Worsley New Testament
be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; for I have not found thy works perfect in the sight of God.
Youngs Literal Translation
become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.
Themes
Alertness » The reward for not being aware
Backsliders » Instances of » Churches of asia
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » When the lord will come
Confession » Who jesus Christ will confess
Spiritual death » Hypocrisy is
Lukewarmness » Instances of » A congregation at » Sardis
Sardis » One of the "seven congregations" in
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Watchfulness against sin and temptation
Watchfulness » For the coming of Christ, reasons for » Against sin and temptation
Topics
Interlinear
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Devotionals
Devotionals about Revelation 3:2
Devotionals containing Revelation 3:2
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 3:2
Prayers for Revelation 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Letter To The Church In Sardis
1 And to the messenger of the church in Sardis write: Thus says he having the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead: 2 Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God. 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:28
And command Joshua and strengthen him, and make him firm, for he shall pass through before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
1 Kings 11:4
And it will be at the time of the old age of Solomon his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God as the heart of David his father.
1 Kings 15:3
And he went in all the sins of his father which he did before him: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah as the heart of David his father.
2 Chronicles 25:2
And he will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah, only not with a whole heart.
Job 4:4-5
Thy words will raise up the weak and thou wilt strengthen the bent knees.
Job 16:5
I will strengthen you with my month, the moving of my lips shall hold back
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen the relaxed hands and make firm the feeble knees.
Isaiah 56:10
Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 57:12
I will announce thy justice and thy works, and they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 62:6-7
I appointed those watching over thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day and all the night continually they shall not be silent: ye remembering Jehovah, no stillness to you.
Ezekiel 34:8-10
I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not my sheep were for plunder and my sheep will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field from no shepherd; and the shepherds sought not my sheep, and the shepherds will feed themselves, and my sheep they fed not
Ezekiel 34:16
The lost I will seek out, and the thrust away I will turn back, and to the broken I will bind up, and the diseased I will strengthen: and the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them with judgment
Daniel 5:27
Tekel; Thou shalt be weighed in the balances and be found wanting.
Zechariah 11:16
For behold, I raise up a shepherd in the land, he shall not review those being concealed; the youth he shall not seek, and he shall not heal the broken, and he shall not nourish the standing firmly: and he shall eat the flesh of the fading, and he shall break their hoofs.
Matthew 6:2-4
When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.
Matthew 23:5
And all their works do they, to be seen by men: and make broad their preservatives, and enlarge the border of their garments
Matthew 23:28-38
So also ye without truly appear just to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 24:42-51
Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes.
Matthew 25:13
Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.
Mark 13:33-37
See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Luke 22:31-32
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you, to sift as wheat:
Acts 18:23
And having made a certain time, he came out, passing in order the Galatian country and Phrygia, supporting all the disciples.
Acts 20:28-31
Attend therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the church of God, which he acquired by his own blood.
2 Timothy 4:1-4
I call to witness before God there fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ, being about to judge the living and the dead according to his appearance and his kingdom;
1 Peter 4:7
And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.
1 Peter 5:8
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
Revelation 2:4
But I have against thee, for thou hest let go thy first love.
Revelation 16:15
(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)