Revelation 3:2 Cross References - Anderson

² Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works perfect before God.

² When, therefore, you do a charitable deed, do not cause a trumpet to be sounded before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Verily, I say to you, They have their reward. ³ But when you do a charitable deed, let not your left hand know what your right hand does; ⁴ that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and. your Father, who sees in secret, himself will reward you openly.

⁵ And they do all their works for the purpose of being seen by men. They make their amulets broad, and enlarge the fringes of their mantles.

²⁸ So also you outwardly appear to men to be just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous, ³⁰ and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So then you testify against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets. ³² Do you also fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? ³⁴ For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood which has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zachariah, the son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest those who are sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused. ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you deserted.

⁴² "Watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this, That if the master of the house had known at what watch the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have permitted his house to be broken open. ⁴⁴ For this reason, be you also ready; for at an hour in which you think not, the Son of man comes. ⁴⁵ Who then is that faithful and wise servant, whom his master has made ruler over his household servants, to give them their food in due time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his master, when he comes, shall find so doing. ⁴⁷ Verily I say to you, That he will make him ruler over all his goods. ⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant shall say in his heart, My master delays his coming; ⁴⁹ and shall begin to strike his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; ⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come in a day in which he looks not for him, and at an hour which he knows not, ⁵¹ and will cut him in two, and appoint him his part with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

³³ Take heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is. ³⁴ As a man, going into another country, leaves his house, and gives authority to his servants, and to each one his own work, and commands the door-keeper to watch; ³⁵ watch you therefore; for you know not when the master of the house comes, whether at evening, or at midnight, or at the crowing of the cock, or in the morning; ³⁶ lest he come suddenly, and find you sleeping. ³⁷ What I say to you, I say to all, Watch.

³¹ And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you apostles for himself, that he may sift you as wheat. ³² But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith fail not. And when you have turned to me again, strengthen your brethren.

²³ And having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

²⁸ Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood. ²⁹ For I know this, that, after my departure, rapacious wolves will enter in among you, who will not spare the flock; ³⁰ and men will arise from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, that they may draw off disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by day and by night, I ceased not to warn every one of you with tears.

¹ I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, ² preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching. ³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will pro cure for themselves an abundance of teachers to gratify their itching ears: ⁴ and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables.

⁷ But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.

⁸ Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.

⁴ But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

¹⁵ Behold, I come as a thief: blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, and that men may not see his nakedness.