Revelation 2:9
I know your tribulation and your poverty, but you are rich, and that you are blasphemed by those who declare themselves to be Jews and are not, but who are a synagogue of Satan.
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Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan. For it has been written: ‘You shall adore the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”
Luke 6:20And lifting up his eyes to his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Luke 22:65And blaspheming in many other ways, they spoke against him.
Acts 14:22And when they had established priests for them in each church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.
Romans 2:17But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,
Romans 5:3And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises 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 →