Revelation 2:25

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Only hold on to what you have until I come.

King James Version (1611)
But that which ye haue already, hold fast till I come.

King James Version
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

English Standard Version
Only hold fast what you have until I come.

New American Standard Bible
'Nevertheless what you have, hold firmly until I come.

New Century Version
Only continue in your loyalty until I come.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.

Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come.

Contemporary English Version
But until I come, you must hold firmly to the teaching you have.

Complete Jewish Bible
only hold fast to what you have until I come.

Darby Translation
but what ye have hold fast till I shall come.

Easy-to-Read Version
Only hold on to the truth you have until I come.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But that which ye haue alreadie, hold fast till I come.

George Lamsa Translation
But hold fast to that which you already have till I come.

Good News Translation
But until I come, you must hold firmly to what you have.

Lexham English Bible
Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come.

Literal Translation
but what you have, hold until I shall come.

Amplified Bible
except to hold tightly to what you have until I come.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

Bible in Basic English
But what you have, keep safe till I come.

Hebrew Names Version
Nevertheless that which you have, hold firmly until I come.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
but that which you have, hold, until I come.

Murdock Translation
but, what ye have, hold fast until I come.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But that which ye haue alredy, holde fast tyll I come,

English Revised Version
Howbeit that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

World English Bible
Nevertheless that which you have, hold firmly until I come.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But what ye have, hold fast till I come.

Weymouth's New Testament
Only that which you already possess, cling to until I come.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
til Y come.

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless that which you have, hold fast until I come.

Webster's Bible Translation
But that which ye have [already] hold fast till I come.

New English Translation
However, hold on to what you have until I come.

New King James Version
But hold fast what you have till I come.

New Living Translation
except that you hold tightly to what you have until I come.

New Life Bible
But hold on to what you have until I come.

New Revised Standard
only hold fast to what you have until I come.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
nevertheless, what ye have, hold fast, till I shall have come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet that which you have, hold fast till I come.

Revised Standard Version
only hold fast what you have, until I come.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
but yt which ye have alreddy. Holde fast tyll I come

Young's Literal Translation
but that which ye have -- hold ye, till I may come;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but yt which ye haue already. Holde fast tyll I come,

Mace New Testament (1729)
hold that fast till I come.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all just take a deep seat and screw your hat down until I get back.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Write this to Thyatira, to the Angel of the church. God's Son, eyes pouring fire-blaze, standing on feet of furnace-fired bronze, says this: ¹⁹ "I see everything you're doing for me. Impressive! The love and the faith, the service and persistence. Yes, very impressive! You get better at it every day. ²⁰"But why do you let that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet mislead my dear servants into Cross-denying, self-indulging religion? I gave her a chance to change her ways, but she has no intention of giving up a career in the god-business. I'm about to lay her low, along with her partners, as they play their sex-and-religion games. The bastard offspring of their idol-whoring I'll kill. Then every church will know that appearances don't impress me. I x-ray every motive and make sure you get what's coming to you. ²⁴"The rest of you Thyatirans, who have nothing to do with this outrage, who scorn this playing around with the Devil that gets paraded as profundity, be assured I'll not make life any harder for you than it already is. Hold on to the truth you have until I get there. ²⁶"Here's the reward I have for every conqueror, everyone who keeps at it, refusing to give up: You'll rule the nations, your Shepherd-King rule as firm as an iron staff, their resistance fragile as clay pots. This was the gift my Father gave me; I pass it along to you—and with it, the Morning Star! ²⁹ "Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Revelation 3:3, Revelation 3:11, Acts 11:28, Romans 12:9, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 10:23

till: Revelation 1:7, Revelation 22:7, Revelation 22:20, John 14:3, John 21:22, John 21:23, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 11:26, 2 Peter 3:10

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 8:5 - they hold Matthew 25:5 - the Galatians 5:1 - Stand 2 Timothy 1:13 - Hold Titus 1:9 - Holding Revelation 2:13 - thou holdest Revelation 21:7 - overcometh

Cross-References

Genesis 2:10
A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers. The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold. The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for a sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone. The second river is named Gihon; it flows through the land of Cush. The third river is named Hiddekel and flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 3:7
Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.

Exodus 32:25
Moses saw that the people were simply running wild—Aaron had let them run wild, disgracing themselves before their enemies. He took up a position at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is on God 's side, join me!" All the Levites stepped up.

Psalms 25:3
I've thrown in my lot with you; You won't embarrass me, will you? Or let my enemies get the best of me? Don't embarrass any of us Who went out on a limb for you. It's the traitors who should be humiliated.

Isaiah 44:9
All those who make no-god idols don't amount to a thing, and what they work so hard at making is nothing. Their little puppet-gods see nothing and know nothing—they're total embarrassments! Who would bother making gods that can't do anything, that can't "god"? Watch all the no-god worshipers hide their faces in shame. Watch the no-god makers slink off humiliated when their idols fail them. Get them out here in the open. Make them face God-reality.

Mark 8:38
"If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I'm leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you'll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels."

Romans 10:11
Scripture reassures us, "No one who trusts God like this—heart and soul—will ever regret it." It's exactly the same no matter what a person's religious background may be: the same God for all of us, acting the same incredibly generous way to everyone who calls out for help. "Everyone who calls, ‘Help, God!' gets help."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But that which ye have [already],.... Which was something good, even the faithful word, the form of sound words, the mystery and doctrine of faith; this they had received from Christ and his apostles; they had it in their hearts, and a comfortable experience of the truth and power of it, and had made a profession of it, which they now held, and are here exhorted to hold fast:

hold fast till I come; meaning the coming of Christ, either at the Reformation by Luther, Calvin, and others, which began at the close of this church state, when the hands and hearts of those professors would be more strengthened, which seems to be the first sense of the words; or to judge Jezebel, destroy antichrist, which will be by the brightness of his coming; till which time the doctrine of the Gospel is to be held fast: and such an exhortation will be always necessary, since, till then, there will be always more or less an opposition to it, and attempts made to wrest it out of the hands of its professors, to cause them to hesitate about it, and to intimidate them in the profession of it, by loading them with reproaches, calumnies, and persecution.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But that which ye have ... - All that there is of truth and purity remaining among you, retain faithfully. Compare Revelation 3:11.

Till I come - To receive you to myself, John 14:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. That which ye have — That is, the pure doctrine of the Gospel, hold fast till I come-till I come to execute the judgments which I have threatened.