Revelation 3:14
And to the angel of the church of Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
13He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot.
Cross References
Proverbs 8:22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
Isaiah 65:16In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
2 Corinthians 1:20For all the promises of God are in him, It is; therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.
Colossians 1:18And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:
Colossians 4:16And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.
Revelation 1:11Saying: What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which are in Asia, to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamus, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 3:8-14
The Church in Philadelphia. ( a. d. 95.) 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not,… Read the whole commentary →