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Revelation 3:19-21
New English Translation
Revelation 3:19-21
New English Translation
19 All those[a] I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent! 20 Listen![b] I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home[c] and share a meal with him, and he with me. 21 I will grant the one[d] who conquers[e] permission[f] to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered[g] and sat down with my Father on his throne.
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- Revelation 3:19 tn The Greek pronoun ὅσος (hosos) means “as many as” and can be translated “All those” or “Everyone.”
- Revelation 3:20 tn Grk “Behold.”
- Revelation 3:20 tn Grk “come in to him.”sn The expression in Greek does not mean entrance into the person, as is popularly taken, but entrance into a room or building toward the person. See ExSyn 380-82. Some interpreters understand the door here to be the door to the Laodicean church, and thus a collective or corporate image rather than an individual one.
- Revelation 3:21 tn Grk “The one who conquers, to him I will grant.”
- Revelation 3:21 tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”
- Revelation 3:21 tn Grk “I will give [grant] to him.”
- Revelation 3:21 tn Or “have been victorious”; traditionally, “have overcome.”
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