Be alert(A) and strengthen[a] what remains, which is about to die,[b] for I have not found your works complete before my God. Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come[c] like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you.(B) But you have a few people[d] in Sardis who have not defiled[e] their clothes,(C) and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:2 Other mss read guard
  2. 3:2 Or strengthen who remain, who are about to die
  3. 3:3 Other mss add upon you
  4. 3:4 Lit few names
  5. 3:4 Or soiled

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