Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
Cross References
Genesis 3:22Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Proverbs 15:4A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Ezekiel 31:8The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
Matthew 13:9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Mark 7:15Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.
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 →