Revelation 3:2 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 3:2

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Be watchful - Ye have lost ground by carelessness and inattention. Awake, and keep awake! Strengthen the things which remain - The convictions and good desires, with any measure of the fear of God and of a tender conscience, which, although still subsisting, are about to perish, because the Holy Spirit, who is the author of them, being repeatedly grieved, is about finally to depart. Thy works perfect - Πεπληρωμενα· Filled up. They performed duties of all kinds, but no duty completely. They were constantly beginning, but never brought any thing to a proper end.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

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 are ready to die.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Translate, "complete." Weighed in the balance of Him who requires living faith as the motive of works, and found wanting. before God--Greek, "in the sight of God." The three oldest manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic, read, "before (in the sight of) MY God"; Christ's judgment is God the Father's judgment.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
γίνου	ginou	do be	G1096 →
γρηγορῶν	grēgorōn	watching	G1127 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
στήρισον	stērison	do strengthen	G4741 →
τὰ	ta	the [things]	G3588 →
λοιπὰ	loipa	that remain	G3062 →
ἃ	ha	which	G3739 →
ἔμελλον	emellon	<they> were about	G3195 →
ἀποθανεῖν·	apothanein	to die;	G599 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
εὕρηκά	heurēka	I have found	G2147 →
σου	sou	your	G4771 →
τὰ	ta	<the>	G3588 →
ἔργα	erga	works	G2041 →
πεπληρωμένα	peplērōmena	completed	G4137 →
ἐνώπιον	enōpion	in the sight of	G1799 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	God	G2316 →
μου.	mou	of Mine.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
leads to
- 1 Peter 1:13
  Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 6:11
  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- James 4:7
  Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Ephesians 4:27
  and do not give the devil a foothold.
- Job 2:2
  “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
Through
1 Peter 4:7
The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
leads to
- James 5:8–9
  You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- 2 Timothy 4:5
  But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
- Luke 21:34
  But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

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