Revelation 3:1

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Revelation 3:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

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 deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.

2 Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

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Revelation 1:20

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Revelation 1:4

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Revelation 4:5

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Revelation 5:6

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John 1:16

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John 1:33

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John 3:34

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John 7:38

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

John 7:39

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John 15:26

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John 15:27

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John 20:22

When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

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Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

1 Peter 1:11

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Revelation 1:16

He held in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword came from His mouth. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

Revelation 2:2

I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.

Revelation 2:9

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Revelation 2:19

I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.

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For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32

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Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Colossians 2:13

When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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Jude 1:12

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.