Revelation 2:7

Those with ears must hear, and to the one who overcomes, Christ promises the tree of life in God's paradise. It matters because perseverance leads to eternal life with God.

Cross-references · 32

• Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
• Rev 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
• Matt 11:15He who has ears, let him hear.
• Rev 13:9He who has an ear, let him hear:
• Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
• Matt 13:9He who has ears, let him hear.”
• Rev 3:12–13The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
• Rev 3:21–22To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
• Rev 3:5–6Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
• Rev 2:26–29And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
• Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
• Gen 2:9Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
• Luke 23:43And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
• Rev 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
• Mark 7:15Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”
• 1 Jn 5:4–5because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• 1 Cor 2:10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
• Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Rev 22:2down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
• Gen 3:22–24Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
• 1 Cor 12:4–12There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
• Ezek 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
• Prov 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
• Rev 12:10–11And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.
• 2 Cor 12:4was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.
• Prov 15:4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
• Ezek 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
• Rev 15:2And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
• Rev 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.

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