Revelation 3:2

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Revelation 3:1–4 · 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.

4 But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

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Revelation 16:15

“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 62:6

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,

Isaiah 62:7

nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

Ezekiel 34:8

‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,

Ezekiel 34:9

therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD!’

Ezekiel 34:10

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’

Zechariah 11:16

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

Matthew 24:42

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

Matthew 24:43

But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

Matthew 24:44

For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.

Matthew 24:45

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?

Matthew 24:46

Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

Matthew 24:47

Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

Matthew 24:48

But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’

Matthew 24:49

And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

Matthew 24:50

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

Matthew 24:51

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:13

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Mark 13:33

Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come.

Mark 13:34

It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.

Mark 13:35

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.

Mark 13:36

Otherwise, he may arrive without notice and find you sleeping.

Mark 13:37

And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep watch!”

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Acts 20:29

I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.

Acts 20:30

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

Acts 20:31

Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

2 Timothy 4:1

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

2 Timothy 4:2

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.

2 Timothy 4:4

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

Deuteronomy 3:28

But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”

Job 4:4

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

Job 4:5

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Job 16:5

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

Luke 22:31

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

Luke 22:32

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

Acts 18:23

After Paul had spent some time in Antioch, he traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

1 Kings 15:3

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

2 Chronicles 25:2

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

Isaiah 57:12

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Matthew 6:2

So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

Matthew 6:3

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Matthew 6:4

so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 23:5

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Matthew 23:28

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

Matthew 23:30

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.’

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Matthew 23:34

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you desolate.