Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. New Living Translation Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions do not meet the requirements of my God. English Standard Version Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Berean Standard Bible Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. Berean Literal Bible Be watching, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works having been completed in the sight of My God. King James Bible Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. New King James Version Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. New American Standard Bible Be constantly alert, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. NASB 1995 ‘Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. NASB 1977 ‘Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. Legacy Standard Bible Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of My God. Amplified Bible Wake up, and strengthen and reaffirm what remains [of your faithful commitment to Me], which is about to die; for I have not found [any of] your deeds completed in the sight of My God or meeting His requirements. Christian Standard Bible Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before my God. Holman Christian Standard Bible Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before My God. American Standard Version Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “Be vigilant and confirm what remains of those things that are ready to die, for I have not found you such that your works are perfect before God.” Contemporary English Version Wake up! You have only a little strength left, and it is almost gone. So try to become stronger. I have found that you are not completely obeying God. Douay-Rheims Bible Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I find not thy works full before my God. English Revised Version Be thou watchful, and stablish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine fulfilled before my God. GOD'S WORD® Translation Be alert, and strengthen the things that are left which are about to die. I have found that what you are doing has not been completed in the sight of my God. Good News Translation So wake up, and strengthen what you still have before it dies completely. For I find that what you have done is not yet perfect in the sight of my God. International Standard Version Be alert, and strengthen the things that are left, which are about to die. I note that your actions are incomplete before my God. Literal Standard Version be watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found your works fulfilled before God. Majority Standard Bible Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. New American Bible Be watchful and strengthen what is left, which is going to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. NET Bible Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. New Revised Standard Version Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God. New Heart English Bible Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which were about to die, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. Webster's Bible Translation Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Weymouth New Testament Rouse yourself and keep awake, and strengthen those things which remain but have well-nigh perished; for I have found no doings of yours free from imperfection in the sight of My God. World English Bible Wake up and strengthen the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. Young's Literal Translation become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God. Additional Translations ... Context To the Church in Sardis1“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. 2 Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. 3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.… Cross References Revelation 3:1 "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. Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you. Treasury of Scripture Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before God. watchful. Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Isaiah 62:6,7 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, … strengthen. Revelation 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Deuteronomy 3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. Job 4:4-5 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees… thy works. 1 Kings 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 1 Kings 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. 2 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart. Jump to Previous Awake Completed Deeds Die Doings Establish Found Free God's Imperfection Judged Measure Perfect Perfected Perished Point Ready Rest Rouse Strengthen Strong Throw Wake Watch Watchful Well-Nigh WorksJump to Next Awake Completed Deeds Die Doings Establish Found Free God's Imperfection Judged Measure Perfect Perfected Perished Point Ready Rest Rouse Strengthen Strong Throw Wake Watch Watchful Well-Nigh WorksRevelation 3 1. The angel of the church of Sardis is reproved and exhorted to repent.37. The angel of the church of Philadelphia is approved for his diligence and patience; 14. the angel of Laodicea rebuked for being neither hot nor cold. 20. Christ stands at the door and knocks. (2) Be watchful.--Rather, become wakeful. It will not do simply to rouse and sleepily grasp at their spiritual weapons, or even to stand for once at arms; you must become of wakeful habit. Strengthen the remaining things which were (when I roused you) about to die; for I have not found thy (or, any of thy) works perfect--completed or fulfilled, fully done in weight and tale and measure--before my God.Verse 2. - Be watchful; literally, become watching. The use of ψίψνομαι implies that the watchful state is not the normal one - a change is needed before the watching can come about (comp. Revelation 1:9, 10, 18; Revelation 2:8; Revelation 4:2; Revelation 6:12, etc.). The use of the present participle instead of an adjective ("watching!" for "watchful") makes the charge more definite; not merely "be of a watchful character," but "become a watcher" (comp. Revelation 16:10; Mark 1:4; Mark 9:3, 7; Hebrews 5:12). Stablish the things that remain, which were ready to die. The reading, "were ready to die," is the best attested, and as being less smooth than "are ready to die," was more likely to be altered. It anticipates the time when the command will be obeyed: "which were ready to die when thou didst begin to stablish them." No doubt τὰ λοιπά may be masculine in signification, and mean those members of the Church who have still some life in them. But this interpretation anticipates ver. 4, which apparently introduces a new fact. It seems better, therefore, to retain the neuter, and interpret "the things that remain" as meaning the few good elements of faith and practice which still survived. The externals of the Christian life were there; otherwise it could not have been even nominally Christian. And these externals might be made realities to support the revived life of the Church. For I have found no works of thine. The difference between the Authorized Version and the Revised Version here depends upon the presence or absence of the article before ἔργα. The balance of probability is against τά, and its absence makes the reproach stronger. Fulfilled before my God. The substitution of "fulfilled" (Revised Version) for "perfect" (Authorized Version) is important. The Greek is πεπληρωμένα (John 16:24; John 17:13, etc.), not τέλεια (1 John 4:18). And "fulfilled" is better than "complete" (Alford, Tregelles), in order to bring out the connexion with the numerous places in which the same verb occurs, especially in the writings of St. John (Revelation 5:11; John 3:29; John 7:8; John 12:38; John 13:18; John 15:11, 25, etc.; 1 John 1:4 2John 12); in many of which passages "complete" would not stand as a rendering. "Fulfilled," or" made full," means made up to the right standard of excellence. The works of the Sardian Church have been weighed, and found wanting before God. "A minister of Christ is very often in highest honour with men for the performance of one half of his work, while God is regarding him with displeasure for the neglect of the other half." "Before my God" is undoubtedly the true reading, whatever may be the case in Revelation 2:7. Only in the writings of St. John does Jesus Christ speak of the Father as "my God;" and this fact is one more link between the Fourth Gospel and the Apocalypse. In this chapter we have five instances - here and ver. 12 (comp. Revelation 2:7 [possibly] and John 20:17). In Matthew 27:46 Christ adopts the language of Psalm 22:1, and addresses the Father as" my God;" and St. Paul uses similar language (Ephesians 1:17). The expression, "before God" (ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ), is specially common in the Apocalypse and in the writings of St. Luke and of St. Paul; it does not occur in either St. Matthew or St. Mark. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Wake upγρηγορῶν (grēgorōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 1127: (a) I am awake (in the night), watch, (b) I am watchful, on the alert, vigilant. From egeiro; to keep awake, i.e. Watch. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. strengthen στήρισον (stērison) Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4741: From a presumed derivative of histemi; to set fast, i.e. to turn resolutely in a certain direction, or to confirm. what τὰ (ta) Article - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. remains, λοιπὰ (loipa) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 3062: Left, left behind, the remainder, the rest, the others. Masculine plural of a derivative of leipo; remaining ones. which ἃ (ha) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Plural Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that. was about ἔμελλον (emellon) Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 3195: A strengthened form of melo; to intend, i.e. Be about to be, do, or suffer something. to die; ἀποθανεῖν (apothanein) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active Strong's 599: To be dying, be about to die, wither, decay. From apo and thnesko; to die off. for γὰρ (gar) Conjunction Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. I have found εὕρηκά (heurēka) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 2147: A prolonged form of a primary heuro, which heureo is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. deeds ἔργα (erga) Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act. incomplete πεπληρωμένα (peplērōmena) Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Neuter Plural Strong's 4137: From pleres; to make replete, i.e. to cram, level up, or to furnish, satisfy, execute, finish, verify, etc. in the sight of ἐνώπιον (enōpion) Preposition Strong's 1799: Neuter of a compound of en and a derivative of optanomai; in the face of. My μου (mou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. God. Θεοῦ (Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. 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