Revelation 3:20-22
New English Translation
20 Listen![a] I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home[b] and share a meal with him, and he with me. 21 I will grant the one[c] who conquers[d] permission[e] to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered[f] and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”
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- Revelation 3:20 tn Grk “Behold.”
- Revelation 3:20 tn Grk “come in to him.”sn The expression in Greek does not mean entrance into the person, as is popularly taken, but entrance into a room or building toward the person. See ExSyn 380-82. Some interpreters understand the door here to be the door to the Laodicean church, and thus a collective or corporate image rather than an individual one.
- Revelation 3:21 tn Grk “The one who conquers, to him I will grant.”
- Revelation 3:21 tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”
- Revelation 3:21 tn Grk “I will give [grant] to him.”
- Revelation 3:21 tn Or “have been victorious”; traditionally, “have overcome.”
Revelation 3:20-22
New International Version
20 Here I am! I stand at the door(A) and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,(B) I will come in(C) and eat with that person, and they with me.
21 To the one who is victorious,(D) I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,(E) just as I was victorious(F) and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear(G) what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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