Revelation 3:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Revelation 3:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Be watchful - Be wakeful; be attentive and earnest - in contradistinction from the drowsy condition of the church. Strengthen the things which remain - The true piety that still lives and lin...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are (c) ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. (c) Other things, whose state is such, that they are now going, and...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Letter to the Church at Sardis. Sardis was a little more than 30 miles SE. of Thyatira: formerly a city of great importance, at this time it had become a town of the second rank. It had been de...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Be . Become. watchful. See Matthew 24:42 . the... remain . the remaining (things). App-124. are . were, with the texts. perfect. App-125.

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• Revelation 3:2 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2495 EPISTLE TO SARDIS Revelation 3:2 . Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God . THESE words re...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Be watchful - Ye have lost ground by carelessness and inattention. Awake...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  That are ready to die:— By this death we must understand the death of their faith, since, when men lose their faith, they are dead to Christ. When our Saviour says in the beginning, that he hath...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Be, х ginou ( G1096 )] - 'Become' what thou art not, 'watchf...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Epistles to the Seven Churches (concluded) 1-6. To the Church in Sardis Christ speaks as He who gives the spirit and looks for spiritual life. There is no praise for this Church. Its life is w...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Be watchful. — Rather, become wakeful. It will not do simply to rouse and sleepily grasp at their spiritual weapons, or even to stand for once at arms; you must become of wakeful habit. Strengthe...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Establish the Things That Remain” Revelation 3:1-6 In other addresses to the churches our Lord began with commendation, but no such word is here. He is described in the fullness of His gloriou...

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• Revelation 3:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The letter to the Church in Sardis covers the period of the Reformation. The Church was addressed as "dead." Yet there were things remaining which were not dead, but "ready to die." The address is la...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art...

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• Revelation 3:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A FALSE REPUTATION ‘I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.’ Revelation 3:1 In God’s sight the Church of Sardis was like the corpse of the ancient Scythian—me...

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• Revelation 3:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Be watchful ,.... Which may respect both ministers and members: the ministers of the Gospel, whose business is to watch over themselves, their conversation and doctrine, and watch every opportunity...

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• Revelation 3:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Ver. 2. Be watchful ] Rouse up thyself, and wrestle with God, shake...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Be watchful Therefore awake to a sense of thy danger, and stand on thy guard against the enemies, visible and invisible, which threaten thy eternal destruction; and strengthen By prayer, hearing...

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• Revelation 3:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The Assembly at Sardis (vv. 1-6) The message to the assembly at Sardis has a very different character, for instead of being a development from Thyatira, it is rather a revulsion from it. Sardis...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Church in Sardis. A. D.  95.       1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These thin...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Be watchful, against sin, and unto thy duty, to perform it in a better manner than formerly. And strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die; improve those gifts and good habits whi...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Be watchful and establish the things which remain, which were ready to die, for I have not found any works of yours fulfilled before God. Remember therefore how you received and heard, and keep it a...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 3:1 . Sardis .—Modern, Sart ; once the capital of the old Lydian monarchy, now a village of paltry huts. Seven Spirits of God .—Most writers see in thi...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Scofield Reference Notes

  perfect ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 5:48 ).

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• Revelation 3:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Epistle the fifth. Revelation 3:1 . Sardis, once a flourishing city, the residence of ancient kings, now a miserable village, having but few christians. This is not the Sardis, capital of Lydia...

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• Revelation 3:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Revelation 3:1-66 The epistle to the Church at Sardis. This Church is one of the two which receives unmixed reproof. Smyrna and Philadelphia receive no blame; Sardis and Laodic...

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• Revelation 3:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Pastoral Letters to the Congregations at Sardis, at Philadelphia, and at Laodicea. The letter to the congregation at Sardis:

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• Revelation 3:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 11:4 ; 1 Kings 15:3 ; 1 Peter 4:7 ; 1 Peter 5:8 ; 2 Chronicles 25:2 ; 2 Timothy 4:1-4 ; Acts 18:23 ; Acts 20:28-31 ; Daniel 5:27 ; Deuteronomy 3:28 ; Ezekiel 34:16 ; Ezekiel 34:8-...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Churches at Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea Revelation 3:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We present some of the outstanding things written to the Church at Sardis. This is the fifth Church in t...

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• Revelation 3:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The things which remain — In thy soul; knowledge of the truth, good desires, and convictions. Which were ready to die — Wherever pride, indolence, or levity revives, all the fruits of the Spirit ar...

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