Revelation 3:2

The Letter To The Church In Sardis

¹ "To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: 'I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead. ² 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. ³ Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.

Before God

In the Sight of God

Point of Death

O God

No

Deuteronomy 3:28

Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see."

1 Kings 11:4

When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

1 Kings 15:3

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.

2 Chronicles 25:2

He did what the Lord approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.

Job 4:4-5

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

Job 16:5

But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!

Isaiah 56:10

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

Isaiah 57:12

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

Isaiah 62:6-7

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don't be silent!

Ezekiel 34:8-10

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them -- with judgment!

Daniel 5:27

As for teqel -- you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.

Zechariah 11:16

Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

Matthew 6:2-4

Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

Matthew 23:5

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

Matthew 23:28-38

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

Matthew 24:42-51

"Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:13

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Mark 13:33-37

Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

Luke 22:31-32

"Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat,

Acts 18:23

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Acts 20:28-31

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with 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

For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

Revelation 16:15

(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)