Revelation 2:17

New English Translation

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’

Cross References

Psalm 25:14

The Lord’s loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.

Psalm 36:8

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

Exodus 16:33

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

Proverbs 3:32

for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

Isaiah 56:4

For this is what the Lord says: “For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant,

Isaiah 56:5

I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.

Isaiah 62:2

Nations will see your vindication, and all kings your splendor. You will be called by a new name that the Lord himself will give you.

Isaiah 65:13

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

Isaiah 65:15

Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The sovereign Lord will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.

Matthew 13:11

He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

John 4:32

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Colossians 3:3

for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Revelation 14:3

and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

Revelation 19:16

He has a name written on his clothing and on his thigh: “King of kings and Lord of lords.”

Revelation 2:11

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’

Revelation 2:7

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’

Revelation 3:22

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Revelation 3:6

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’