Revelation 2
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Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

hast borne.

Psalm 69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against …

Mark 15:21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of …

Luke 14:27 And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

1 Corinthians 13:7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Galatians 6:2 Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

hast patience.

Revelation 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and …

Revelation 3:10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you …

Psalm 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because …

Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good …

Luke 21:19 In your patience possess you your souls.

Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and …

Romans 5:3,4 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that …

Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 15:4,5 For whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning…

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to …

2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the …

Hebrews 6:12,15 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith …

Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will …

Hebrews 12:1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, …

James 1:3,4 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience…

James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, …

2 Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience …

hast laboured.

Romans 16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute the beloved …

1 Corinthians 16:16 That you submit yourselves to such, and to every one that helps with …

2 Corinthians 5:9 Why we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

2 Corinthians 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

2 Corinthians 10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's …

2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors …

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of …

Philippians 4:3 And I entreat you also, true yoke fellow, help those women which …

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, …

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: for laboring night …

1 Thessalonians 5:12 And we beseech you, brothers, to know them which labor among you, …

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor …

1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust …

1 Timothy 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, …

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, …

hast not.

Luke 18:1 And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always …

2 Corinthians 4:1,16 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, …

Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall …

2 Thessalonians 3:13 But you, brothers, be not weary in well doing.

Hebrews 12:3-5 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against …

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Remember.

Revelation 3:3,19 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …

Ezekiel 16:61-63 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall …

Ezekiel 20:43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein …

Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that …

2 Peter 1:12,13 Why I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these …

thou art.

Isaiah 14:12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …

Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified …

Jude 1:24 Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present …

and repent.

Revelation 2:16,21,22 Repent; or else I will come to you quickly, and will fight against …

Revelation 3:3,19 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …

Revelation 9:20,21 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet …

Revelation 16:9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of …

Acts 17:30,31 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all …

and do.

Revelation 2:19 I know your works, and charity, and service, and faith, and your …

Revelation 3:2,3 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready …

Isaiah 1:26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counsellors …

Jeremiah 2:2,3 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; …

Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers …

Malachi 3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the …

Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the …

Luke 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn …

else.

Revelation 2:16 Repent; or else I will come to you quickly, and will fight against …

Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …

Matthew 21:41-43 They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and …

Matthew 24:48-51 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays …

Mark 12:9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and …

Luke 12:45,46 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; …

Luke 20:16 He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard …

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

that hath.

Revelation 2:11,17,29 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …

Revelation 3:6,13,22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches…

Revelation 13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

Matthew 11:15 He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 13:9,43 Who has ears to hear, let him hear…

Mark 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

let him.

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are …

Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, …

1 Corinthians 2:10 But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches …

1 Corinthians 12:4-12 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit…

To him.

Revelation 2:11,17,26-28 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …

Revelation 3:5,12,21 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and …

Revelation 12:10,11 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, …

Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that …

Revelation 21:7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, …

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. …

1 John 5:4,5 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the …

the tree.

Revelation 22:2,14 In the middle of the street of it, and on either side of the river, …

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is …

Genesis 3:22-24 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to …

Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and happy is …

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it …

Proverbs 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is …

the paradise.

Luke 23:43 And Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you, To day shall you be with …

2 Corinthians 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, …

And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

know. See on ver.

Revelation 2:2 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you …

tribulation.

Revelation 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they …

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. …

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue …

Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that …

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, …

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

1 Thessalonians 3:4 For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we should …

2 Thessalonians 1:6,7 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation …

poverty.

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach …

Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be …

2 Corinthians 8:2,9 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy …

James 2:5,6 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …

thou art.

Revelation 3:17,18 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need …

Luke 12:21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; …

1 Timothy 6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, …

James 2:5,6 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …

the blasphemy.

Luke 22:65 And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.

Acts 26:11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to …

1 Timothy 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but …

which.

Romans 2:17,28,29 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God…

Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are …

the synagogue.

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Fear.

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that …

shalt.

Daniel 3:16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O …

Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul…

Luke 12:4-7 And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the …

the devil.

Revelation 12:9-11 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, …

Revelation 13:2,7,15-17 And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard, and his feet were …

Luke 21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute …

John 13:2,27 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of …

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, …

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, …

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring …

ye shall. See on ver.

Revelation 2:9 I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) …

ten days.

Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall …

1 Peter 1:6,7 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, …

be thou.

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of …

Matthew 10:22 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that …

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.

Mark 8:35 For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose …

Mark 13:13 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that …

Luke 21:16-19 And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinfolks, …

John 12:25 He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life …

Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear to …

Acts 21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? …

2 Timothy 4:7,8 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith…

a crown.

Revelation 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man …

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, …

1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown …

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

know. See on ver.

Revelation 2:2,9 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you …

Satan's.

Revelation 2:9,10,24 I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) …

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …

thou holdest.

Revelation 2:25 But that which you have already hold fast till I come.

Revelation 3:3,11 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

2 Timothy 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of me, in …

Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we…

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for …

my name.

Revelation 3:8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and …

Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: …

Luke 21:17 And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

Acts 9:14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that …

James 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which you are called?

denied.

Matthew 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee you into another: …

1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his …

2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also …

Jude 1:3,4 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common …

was.

Acts 22:20 And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing …

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

I have. See on ver.

Revelation 2:4,20 Nevertheless I have somewhat against you, because you have left your …

Balaam.

Numbers 24:14 And now, behold, I go to my people: come therefore…

Numbers 25:1-3 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit prostitution …

Numbers 31:8,16 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were …

Joshua 24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against …

2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following …

Jude 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily …

a stumbling-block.

Isaiah 57:14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up …

Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks …

Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and …

Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the …

Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses …

Romans 9:32 Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works …

Romans 11:9 And David said, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and …

Romans 14:13,21 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather…

1 Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and …

1 Corinthians 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling …

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which …

eat.

Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer …

Acts 15:20,21,29 But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, …

Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded …

1 Corinthians 8:4-13 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered …

1 Corinthians 10:18-31 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices …

to commit.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …

Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …

1 Corinthians 6:13-18 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy …

1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, …

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators …

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

with death.

Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him …

and all.

Revelation 2:7,11 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …

Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such …

Deuteronomy 17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deuteronomy 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on …

Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he …

Zephaniah 1:11 Howl, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are …

I am.

1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the …

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in …

2 Chronicles 6:30 Then hear you from heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and render …

Psalm 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish …

Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

Jeremiah 11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins …

Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every …

Jeremiah 20:12 But, O LORD of hosts, that try the righteous, and see the reins and …

John 2:24,25 But Jesus did not commit himself to them, because he knew all men…

John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? …

Acts 1:24 And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, which know the hearts of all …

Romans 8:27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit…

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

and I will.

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books …

Psalm 62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according …

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they …

Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his …

Romans 2:5-11 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …

Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every …

Galatians 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.

1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …

But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

he. See on ver.

Revelation 2:7,11,17 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …

Revelation 3:5,12,21 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and …

Revelation 21:7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, …

Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus …

keepeth.

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.

Luke 8:13-15 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word …

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you …

John 8:31,32 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue …

Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and …

1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your …

Hebrews 10:38,39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …

James 2:20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been …

1 John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of …

to him will I give.

Revelation 3:21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even …

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them…

Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither …

Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; …

Daniel 7:18,22,27 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess …

Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, That you which have followed me…

Luke 22:29,30 And I appoint to you a kingdom, as my Father has appointed to me…

1 Corinthians 6:3,4 Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that …

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
And I will give him the morning star.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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