Revelation 3:5 “Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never…”

Revelation 3:5

Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

World English Bible

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

American Standard Version

He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Geneva Bible 1599

He that ouercommeth, shalbe clothed in white araye, and I will not put out his name out of the booke of life, but I will confesse his name before my Father, and before his Angels.

Darby Translation

He that overcomes, he shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Young's Literal Translation

He who is overcoming — this one — shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.

Bible in Basic English

He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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Cross references

“that”

Revelation 2:7 1 Samuel 17:25

Revelation 2:7 · BSB

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.

1 Samuel 17:25 · BSB

Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his fath…

“the same”

Revelation 19:8 Revelation 3:4

Revelation 19:8 · BSB

She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.

Revelation 3:4 · BSB

But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

“blot”

Psalm 69:28 Psalm 109:13 Deuteronomy 9:14 Exodus 32:32 Exodus 32:33

Psalm 69:28 · BSB

May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.

Psalm 109:13 · BSB

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Deuteronomy 9:14 · BSB

Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

Exodus 32:32 · BSB

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Exodus 32:33 · BSB

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

“the book”

Revelation 21:27 Revelation 20:15 Revelation 17:8 Revelation 20:12 Revelation 13:8 Philippians 4:3

Revelation 21:27 · BSB

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Revelation 20:15 · BSB

And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 17:8 · BSB

The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation…

Revelation 20:12 · BSB

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

Revelation 13:8 · BSB

And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

Philippians 4:3 · BSB

Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

“confess”

Matthew 10:32 Luke 12:8 Malachi 3:17 Jude 1:24

Matthew 10:32 · BSB

Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

Luke 12:8 · BSB

I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.

Malachi 3:17 · BSB

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Jude 1:24 · BSB

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.

6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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