Cross references

Revelation 2:2

I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.

Revelation 2:2 BSB

Revelation 2:2 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 19 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 John 4:1 (41 votes) and 2 Peter 2:1–3 (28 votes). 35 other verses point back to it. It links with 23 other books, from Exodus 37 to Revelation 21.

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Which verses does Revelation 2:2 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 1 John 4:141 votes

    Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

  2. Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. …

  3. but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

  4. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. …

  5. I know your deeds. Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I know that you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name.

  6. Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

  7. and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  8. which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.

  9. Psalm 1:610 votes

    For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

  10. I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

  11. For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

  12. I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latest deeds are greater than your first. But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. …

  13. “To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.

  14. But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

  15. I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

  16. I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits, yet you hold fast to My name. You did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of My faithful witness Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. …

  17. I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other!

Which verses point to Revelation 2:2?

The 10 strongest of 35.