Revelation 3:2

The Letter To The Church In Sardis

¹ And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead; ² become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God. ³ 'Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Before God

In the Sight of God

Point of Death

O God

No

Deuteronomy 3:28

and charge Jehoshua, and strengthen him, and harden him, for he doth pass over before this people, and he doth cause them to inherit the land which thou seest.

1 Kings 11:4

And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15:3

and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;

2 Chronicles 25:2

and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah -- only, not with a perfect heart.

Job 4:4-5

The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

Job 16:5

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

Isaiah 56:10

Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 57:12

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

Isaiah 62:6-7

'On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,

Ezekiel 34:8-10

I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, If not, because of My flock being for a prey, Yea, My flock is for food to every beast of the field, Because there is no shepherd, And My shepherds have not sought My flock, And the shepherds do feed themselves, And My flock they have not fed.

Ezekiel 34:16

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

Daniel 5:27

Weighed -- Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.

Zechariah 11:16

For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off.

Matthew 6:2-4

whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you -- they have their reward!

Matthew 23:5

'And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Matthew 23:28-38

so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 24:42-51

'Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

Matthew 25:13

'Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

Mark 13:33-37

Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;

Luke 22:31-32

And the Lord said, 'Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,

Acts 18:23

And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Acts 20:28-31

'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

2 Timothy 4:1-4

I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign --

1 Peter 4:7

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Revelation 2:4

'But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

Revelation 16:15

lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --