Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God.

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

Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before My God.

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

Wake up, and strengthen and reaffirm what remains [of your faithful commitment to Me], which is about to die; for I have not found [any of] your deeds completed in the sight of My God or meeting His requirements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Be
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

γρηγορεύω 
Gregoreuo 
Usage: 6

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

στηρίζω 
Sterizo 
Usage: 10

λοιποί 
Loipoy 
Usage: 33

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

are ready to
μέλλω 
mello 
shall, should, would, to come, will, things to come, not tr,
Usage: 90

die
ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

I have
εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find,
Usage: 130

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find,
Usage: 130

thy
σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241

ἔργον 
Ergon 
Usage: 130

πληρόω 
Pleroo 
Usage: 68

ἐνώπιον 
Enopion 
before, in the sight of, in the presence of, in sight, in presence, to, not tr
Usage: 78

Devotionals

Devotionals about Revelation 3:2

Devotionals containing Revelation 3:2

References

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Images Revelation 3:2

Prayers for Revelation 3:2

Context Readings

The Letter To The Church In Sardis

1 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: "This is what the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead. 2 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. 3 Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe [it], and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know [at] what hour I will come against you.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:28

Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himself will cross [over] before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.'

1 Kings 11:4

It happened at the time of Solomon's old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father [had been].

1 Kings 15:3

He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father.

2 Chronicles 25:2

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart.

Job 4:4-5

Your words have raised up [the one who] stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.

Job 16:5

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen [are] blind, none of them know. They [are] all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 57:12

I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.

Isaiah 62:6-7

I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who profess Yahweh have no rest.

Ezekiel 34:8-10

"{As I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "{Surely} because my flock have become as plunder, and my flock became as food to all the animals of the field, since there was not a shepherd, [since] my shepherds [have] not sought my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and they fed not my flock,'"

Ezekiel 34:16

"I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind [up] the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice."

Daniel 5:27

" 'Tekel'--you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting.

Zechariah 11:16

For look, I [am] raising up a shepherd in the land who will not attend to the [ones that are] perishing; he will not seek the young man, he will not heal the [ones that are] crushed and he will not sustain the healthy [ones]; he will devour the flesh of the {fattened ones} and tear apart [even] their hoofs.

Matthew 6:2-4

Therefore whenever you practice charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

Matthew 23:5

And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels long.

Matthew 23:28-38

In the [same] way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 24:42-51

Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know what day your Lord is coming!

Matthew 25:13

Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know the day or the hour!

Mark 13:33-37

Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is!

Luke 22:31-32

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat,

Acts 18:23

And [after] spending some time [there], he departed, traveling through one [place] after another [in] the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Acts 20:28-31

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own [Son].

2 Timothy 4:1-4

I solemnly charge [you] before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

1 Peter 4:7

Now the end of all [things] draws near. Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for [your] prayers.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Revelation 2:4

But I have [this] against you: that you have left your first love.

Revelation 16:15

(Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed [is] the one who is on the alert and who keeps his clothing, so that he does not walk around naked and they see his shamefulness!)

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