Revelation 3:8

Christ has set an open door before them, knowing they have little power yet kept his word and did not deny him. It matters because Christ honors faithfulness and opens opportunities the weak cannot.

Cross-references · 25

• 1 Cor 16:9For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
• Col 4:3Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
• Rev 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
• 2 Cor 2:12Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
• Acts 14:27And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
• Luke 12:9But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.
• Rev 2:13I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
• John 17:6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
• Rev 3:15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
• 1 Jn 2:22–23Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
• Rev 22:7Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• Rev 3:10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
• 1 Tim 5:8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
• Matt 26:70–72But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
• Rev 2:2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
• Rev 3:1And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
• John 14:21–24He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• 2 Cor 12:8–10For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
• John 15:20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
• Prov 30:9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Dan 11:34Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
• Acts 3:13–14The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

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