Revelation 2:13

Christ knows they dwell where 'Satan's throne' is yet have held his name, even when Antipas was martyred. It matters because he honors faithfulness in hostile, dangerous settings.

Cross-references · 20

• Rev 2:9–10“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• 1 Tim 5:8But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
• Rev 3:8–9“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.
• Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
• Acts 22:20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
• 2 Tim 2:12If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
• Jude 1:3–4Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
• Rev 14:12Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
• Rev 2:24–25But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Heb 10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
• 2 Tim 1:13Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Luke 21:17You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Matt 10:23But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.
• Acts 9:14Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
• Jas 2:7Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
• 1 Th 5:21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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