Revelation 2:9
I know your works, and your affliction, and your poverty, (but you are rich,) and the impious words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him: Get behind me, Satan, for it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.
Luke 6:20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you that are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 22:65And many other impious things they said to him.
Acts 14:22strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.
Romans 2:17But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,
Matthew Henry on Revelation 2:9-12
The Church in Smyrna. ( a. d. 95.) 8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; 9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful… Read the whole commentary →