Revelation 2:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

I know your distress and your poverty (but you are rich!): I know how you are being slandered by those who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but a mere synagogue of Satan!).

Cross References

Revelation 3:9

Lo, I will make those who belong to that synagogue of Satan, who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but liars!) — lo, I will have them come and do homage before your feet and learn that I did love you.

2 Corinthians 8:9

(You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

Romans 9:6

It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;

2 Corinthians 6:10

grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

1 Timothy 6:18

tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous,

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

Revelation 2:2

I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

Luke 6:20

Then, raising his eyes he looked at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you poor! the Realm of God is yours.

Romans 12:12

let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

Romans 5:3

Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,

1 Timothy 1:13

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

1 Thessalonians 3:4

for we told you beforehand, when we were with you, that "we Christians are to have trouble" — and, as you know, it has been so.)

2 Corinthians 8:2

Amid a severe ordeal of trouble, their overflowing joy and their deep poverty together have poured out a flood of rich generosity;

Romans 8:35

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Luke 22:65

And many another insult they uttered against him.

Luke 12:21

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

Romans 2:17

If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,

Acts 26:11

there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."

John 16:33

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst — where Satan dwells.

Revelation 2:24

But for the rest of you at Thyatira, for all who do not hold these tenets, for those who have not (in their phrase) 'fathomed the deep mysteries of Satan' — for you this is my word: I impose no fresh burden on you;