Revelation 3:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die. For I have not found your works complete in the sight of God.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Be watchful, and stngthen the things which main, that a ady to die: for I have not found thy works perfect befo God.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

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

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Be{G1096} thou watchful,{G1127} and{G2532} establish{G4741} the things that{G3739} remain,{G3062} which{G3739} were ready{G3195} to die:{G599} for{G1063} I have{G2147} found{G2147} no{G3756} works{G2041} of thine perfected{G4137} before{G1799} my God.{G2316}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Be{G1096}{(G5737)} watchful{G1127}{(G5723)}, and{G2532} strengthen{G4741}{(G5657)} the things which remain{G3062}, that{G3739} are{G3195}{(G5719)} ready to die{G599}{(G5629)}: for{G1063} I have{G2147} not{G3756} found{G2147}{(G5758)} thy{G4675} works{G2041} perfect{G4137}{(G5772)} before{G1799} God{G2316}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Be awake and strength the thynges which remayne that are redy to dye. For I have not founde thy workes perfaycte before god.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Be awake, and strength the thinges which remayne, that are redy to dye. For I haue not founde thy workes perfecte before God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Be awake, and strengthen the things which remaine, that are readie to die: for I haue not found thy workes perfite before God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Be awake, and strength the thynges which remayne, that are redie to dye: For I haue not founde thy workes perfect before God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ‹Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.›

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  • Rev 2:4 : 4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 Look, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps their clothes with them, so they will not walk around naked and be shamefully exposed.
  • Acts 18:23 : 23 After spending some time there, he departed and traveled throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
  • Acts 20:28-31 : 28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood. 29 I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30 Even from among your own group, men will rise up, speaking twisted things to draw away the disciples to follow them. 31 Therefore, be watchful, remembering that for three years I never stopped admonishing each one of you with tears, night and day.
  • 2 Tim 4:1-4 : 1 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching. 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears. 4 They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.
  • Deut 3:28 : 28 ‘Charge Joshua and encourage him, for he will lead this people across and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.’
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
  • Job 4:4-5 : 4 Your words have raised up those who stagger, and you have strengthened knees that were about to give way. 5 But now it has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are troubled.
  • Job 16:5 : 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would bring you relief.
  • Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Israel's watchmen are blind; they all lack knowledge. They are all mute dogs; they cannot bark. They lie around dreaming, loving to sleep.
  • Isa 57:12 : 12 I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.
  • Isa 62:6-7 : 6 Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will not be silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest, 7 and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
  • Ezek 34:8-9 : 8 'As surely as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'because My flock has become prey and My flock has become food for every wild animal since there was no shepherd and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock, 9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD. 10 This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand My flock from their hand and stop them from shepherding My flock. The shepherds will no longer feed themselves, for I will rescue My flock from their mouths, so it will no longer be food for them.'
  • Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the injured, and strengthen the weak. But the fat and the strong I will destroy—I will shepherd them with justice.
  • Dan 5:27 : 27 Tekel means that you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
  • Zech 11:16 : 16 For behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those being destroyed, seek the young, heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.'
  • Matt 6:2-4 : 2 So, when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. They make their phylacteries broad and their tassels long.
  • Matt 23:28-38 : 28 So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, 30 and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins! 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? 34 Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you! How often I have wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Matt 24:42-51 : 42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. 45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Therefore, watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
  • Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Be on guard! Stay alert and pray, because you do not know when the time will come. 34 It is like a man going on a journey, who leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert. 35 Therefore, stay alert, because you do not know when the master of the house will come—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36 Otherwise, when he comes suddenly, he may find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: Stay alert!
  • Luke 22:31-32 : 31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you all like wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

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    1 To the angel of the church in Sardis, write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.

  • Rev 3:3-11
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    82%

    3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it and repent. If you are not alert, I will come unexpectedly like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

    4 Yet you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

    5 The one who conquers will be clothed in white garments, and I will never blot out their name from the book of life. I will confess their name before my Father and before His angels.

    6 Let the one who has ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

    7 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open.

    8 I know your works. Look, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut, because you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

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    10 Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is coming upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth.

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  • Rev 3:13-20
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    13 Let the one who has ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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    16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

    17 Because you say, 'I am rich, I have become wealthy, and I don’t need anything,' yet you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

    18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may become rich; white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed; and ointment to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

    19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

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  • Rev 2:18-19
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    18 To the angel of the church in Thyatira, write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze:

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  • Rev 2:1-13
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    1 To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write: These are the words of the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:

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    3 You have endured and have shown perseverance, and for my name’s sake, you have labored and have not grown weary.

    4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

    5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

    6 But you have this: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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    25 But hold fast to what you have until I come.

  • Rev 1:18-20
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    19 Write down what you have seen, what is, and what will take place after this.

    20 The mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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    8 Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

  • Rev 2:29
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    29 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

  • Rev 2:16
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    16 Repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

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    22 Let the one who has ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these things, make every effort to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless.

  • Mark 13:36-37
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    36 Otherwise, when he comes suddenly, he may find you sleeping.

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    15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you.