Revelation 2:13

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‘I know where you live– where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • Rev 2:9-9 : 9 ‘I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty(but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.
  • Acts 22:20 : 20 And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
  • 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.
  • Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God’s house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.
  • Heb 10:23 : 23 And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 But examine all things; hold fast to what is good.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
  • Rev 2:24-25 : 24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching(who have not learned the so-called“deep secrets of Satan”), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you. 25 However, hold on to what you have until I come.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
  • Rev 3:8-9 : 8 ‘I know your deeds.(Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name. 9 Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan– who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying– Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
  • Rev 3:11 : 11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown.
  • Rev 14:12 : 12 This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints– those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus.
  • Jude 1:3-4 : 3 Condemnation of the False Teachers Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 ‘I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles(but are not), and have discovered that they are false.
  • 2 Tim 1:13 : 13 Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  • Luke 21:17 : 17 You will be hated by everyone because of my name.
  • Acts 9:14 : 14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!”
  • Jas 2:7 : 7 Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?
  • Matt 10:23 : 23 Whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to another! I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

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    1 To the Church in Ephesus“To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who has a firm grasp on the seven stars in his right hand– the one who walks among the seven golden lampstands:

    2 ‘I know your works as well as your labor and steadfast endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have even put to the test those who refer to themselves as apostles(but are not), and have discovered that they are false.

    3 I am also aware that you have persisted steadfastly, endured much for the sake of my name, and have not grown weary.

    4 But I have this against you: You have departed from your first love!

    5 Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place– that is, if you do not repent.

    6 But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice– practices I also hate.

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    8 To the Church in Smyrna“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:

    9 ‘I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty(but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

    10 Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.

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    8 ‘I know your deeds.(Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.

    9 Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan– who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying– Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

    10 Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

    11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown.

    12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God(the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.

    13 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

    14 To the Church in Laodicea“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation:

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    14 But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

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    16 Therefore, repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of my mouth.

    17 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’

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    20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

    21 I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

    22 Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

    23 Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.

    24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching(who have not learned the so-called“deep secrets of Satan”), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you.

    25 However, hold on to what you have until I come.

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    21 I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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  • 12 This requires the steadfast endurance of the saints– those who obey God’s commandments and hold to their faith in Jesus.

  • 29 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

  • 12 Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!”

  • 20 The mystery of the seven stars that 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.

  • 9 So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

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