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Revelation 2:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I know your   affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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Note this: I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews and are not, but are lying #– #I will make them come and bow down at your feet,   and they will know that I have loved you.


For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though he was rich,  for your sake he became poor,  so that by his poverty you might become rich.


Now it is not as though the word of God has failed,  because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.


as grieving, yet always rejoicing;  as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.


Instruct them to do what is good, to be rich in good works,  to be generous and willing to share,


The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release   to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,


I know your works, your labour, and your endurance,   and that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not,   and you have found them to be liars.


Then looking up at his disciples, he said: Blessed are you who are poor, because the kingdom of God is yours.


Rejoice in hope;  be patient in affliction;  be persistent in prayer.


And not only that,  but we also boast in our afflictions,  because we know that affliction produces endurance,


even though I was formerly a blasphemer,  a persecutor,  and an arrogant man.  But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief,


In fact, when we were with you, we told you in advance that we were going to experience affliction, and as you know, it happened.


During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.


Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction  or distress or persecution  or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?


I said to him, ‘Sir,  you know.’ Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.  They washed their robes and made them white  in the blood of the Lamb.


And they were saying many other blasphemous  things to him.


‘That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure   for himself and is not rich towards God.’


Now if  you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law,  and boast in God,


In all the synagogues I often punished them and tried to make them blaspheme.  Since I was terribly enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.


strengthening the  disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith  and by telling them, ‘It is necessary to go through many hardships  to enter the kingdom of God.’


I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.’


Then Jesus told him, ‘Go away,   Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’   ,


I, John, your brother and partner in the affliction,  kingdom,  and endurance  that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.


I know   where you live #– #where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding on to my name and did not deny your faith in me,   , even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness   who was put to death among you, where Satan lives.


I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known ‘the so-called secrets   , of Satan’   #– #as they say #– #I am not putting any other burden on you.





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