Revelation 3:2

Christ calls them to wake up and strengthen what remains, for their works are unfinished before God. It matters because dying churches are summoned to urgent revival.

Cross-references · 28

• Rev 16:15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• 2 Tim 4:1–4I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
• Isa 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
• Acts 20:28–31Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Mark 13:33–37Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
• 2 Chr 25:2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
• Luke 22:31–32And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
• Deut 3:28But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
• Acts 18:23And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
• Matt 24:42–51Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
• Ezek 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
• Dan 5:27TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
• 1 Kgs 11:4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
• 1 Kgs 15:3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
• Isa 62:6–7I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
• Isa 57:12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
• Matt 23:5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
• Ezek 34:8–10As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
• Rev 2:4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
• Job 4:4–5Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
• Matt 23:28–38Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Zech 11:16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
• Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
• Matt 6:2–4Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

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