Revelation 1:3
Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and who keep the things written in it, for the time is near.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2who testified the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things as he saw.
Cross References
Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Daniel 12:12Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things has approached. Therefore be serious, and be sober for the prayers.
Revelation 22:6And he says to me, These words are faithful and true. And Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his agent to show to his bondmen the things that must quickly come to pass.
Revelation 22:12Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to render to each man as his work will be.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 1:2-3
Revelation AN EXPOSITION, WITH PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS, OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE It ought to be no prejudice to the credit and authority of this book that it has been rejected by men of corrupt minds, such as Cerdon and Marcion, and doubted of by men of a better character; for this has been the lot of other parts of holy writ, and of the divine Author of the scripture himself. The image and superscription of this book are truly sacred and divine, and the matter of it agreeable with other prophetical… Read the whole commentary →