Revelation 3:2 Cross References - WPNT

² Wake up! And strengthen the remaining things that you were about to throw away, for I have not found your works to be fulfilled before my God.

² Therefore, whenever you do charitable giving do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by the people. Assuredly I say to you, they already have their reward. ³ But when you do charitable giving do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ⁴ so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself repay you openly.

⁵ “Rather, they do all their works in order to be seen by people. They make their phylacteries broad and the tassels on their garments large;

²⁸ Just so you also outwardly appear to be righteous to the people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!!! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous; ³⁰ yet you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets’. ³¹ Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² So fill up the measure of your fathers’ guilt! ³³ “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape from the condemnation of Hell? ³⁴ So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city ³⁵ —so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children, just like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not want to. ³⁸ Look, your house is left to you abandoned!

⁴² So be watchful, because you (pl) do not know in what hour your Lord is coming. ⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because the Son of the Man is coming at an hour that you do not suppose. ⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and prudent servant whom his lord placed over his corps of servants to give them food on schedule? ⁴⁶ Blessed be that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find doing so. ⁴⁷ Assuredly I say to you that he will place him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his return’, ⁴⁹ and should begin to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour when he is not aware, ⁵¹ and will cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Therefore, keep alert, because you do not know the day nor the hour in which the Son of the Man is coming.

³³ Watch! Keep alert! Pray! Because you do not know when that time will be. ³⁴ It is like a man off on a journey, having left his house and given the authority to his slaves, and to each his work; and he commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. ³⁵ Therefore be watchful, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming—at evening or at midnight or at cockcrow or early morning— ³⁶ lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. ³⁷ The things I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

³¹ Then the Lord said: “Simon, Simon! Indeed Satan has asked for you (pl) so as to sift you like wheat. ³² But I have prayed for you (sg) so that your faith not fail completely; so you, when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.”

²³ After spending some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

²⁸ So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood. ²⁹ Because I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ Yes, men will rise up from among you yourselves, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them. ³¹ Therefore be alert, remembering that during three years, night and day, I never stopped admonishing each one, with tears.

¹ Now then, in the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge both living and dead with a view to His appearing and His Kingdom, I give you this charge: ² Proclaim the Word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and exhort, with lots of patience and teaching. ³ Because the time will come when they will not tolerate the sound doctrine; rather, they will accumulate for themselves a great many teachers who will tickle their ears according to their lusts ⁴ —yes, they will turn their ears away from the Truth and be turned aside to fables.

⁷ The end of all things has approached; therefore be serious and self-controlled in your praying.

⁸ Be sober, stay alert! Because your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is circling you, looking for someone to devour;

⁴ ‘Nevertheless I have against you that you have left your first love.

¹⁵ (“Watch out, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who watches and guards his clothes, so that he not walk about naked and they see his shame.”)