Revelation 2:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’ ”

Luke 12:21

So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”

Luke 22:65

They kept heaping many other insults on him.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring 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 those who are oppressed,

Luke 6:20

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

John 16:33

I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”

Acts 14:22

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Acts 26:11

By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme, and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

Romans 12:12

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

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God

Romans 5:3

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

Romans 8:35

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

Romans 9:6

It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

2 Corinthians 8:2

for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

1 Timothy 6:18

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share,

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother who share with you the persecution and the kingdom and the endurance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 2:13

“I know where you are living, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding fast to my name, and you did not deny your faith in me even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

Revelation 2:2

“I know your works, your toil and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate evildoers; you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them to be false.

Revelation 2:24

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden;

Revelation 3:9

I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not but are lying—I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.