Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat from the tree of life that is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6But this thou have, that thou hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--
Proverbs 11:30The fruit of a righteous man is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 15:4A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not dim it. The fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches, nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
Matthew 13:9He who has ears, let him hear.
Mark 7:15There is nothing outside the man, entering into him that can defile him, but the things coming out of him those are the things that defile the man.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 2:2-8
The Church in Ephesus. ( a. d. 95.) 1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I 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: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4… Read the whole commentary →