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 and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
• Col 4:3praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
• 2 Cor 2:12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Luke 12:9but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
• Rev 2:13“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• John 17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
• Rev 3:15“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
• 1 Jn 2:22–23Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
• Rev 22:7“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• 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.
• Matt 26:70–72But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
• 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.
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• John 14:21–24One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• 2 Cor 12:8–10Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
• John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
• Prov 30:9lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Dan 11:34Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.
• Acts 3:13–14The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

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