Revelation 2:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“ ‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander 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, “Begone, Satan! for it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ ”

Luke 12:21

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Luke 22:65

And they spoke many other words against him, reviling him.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

John 16:33

I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Acts 26:11

And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and in raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 2:17

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

Romans 5:3

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 9:6

But it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

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 in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of liberality on their part.

2 Corinthians 8:9

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

1 Thessalonians 3:4

For when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction; just as it has come to pass, and as you know.

1 Timothy 1:13

though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; 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 deeds, liberal and generous,

Revelation 1:9

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

Revelation 2:13

“ ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; you hold fast my name and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Revelation 2:2

“ ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and 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 upon you any other burden;

Revelation 3:9

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

Revelation 7:14

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