Revelation 2:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.
  • 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Jas 2:5-6 : 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil; and you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
  • Rev 3:17-18 : 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.
  • 1 Tim 6:18 : 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share;
  • Luke 6:20 : 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
  • Rom 9:6 : 6 Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel:
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
  • 2 Cor 8:2 : 2 How in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the riches of their generosity.
  • 1 Thess 3:4 : 4 For truly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know.
  • 2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
  • Luke 12:21 : 21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
  • Luke 22:65 : 65 And they spoke many other blasphemous things against him.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have spoken these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 26:11 : 11 And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  • Rom 5:3 : 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces patience;
  • Rom 8:35 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, Go away, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and only him shall you serve.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are those who came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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    8I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

    9Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

    10Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

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    7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

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    16So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth.

    17Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

    18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.

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    16Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

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    18And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass;

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    25But hold fast what you have until I come.

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    6But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?

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    2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

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