Revelation 3:10 Meaning and Explanation
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Because Philadelphia kept Christ's call to patient endurance, He promises to keep them through the coming hour of trial.
What Does Revelation 3:10 Mean?
Still in the Philadelphia letter, the Lord answers faithfulness with protection. They have kept the word of His patience, the call to steadfast endurance. In turn He pledges to keep them in the hour of trial that will test all the earth.
There is a reciprocity of grace here: those who hold fast to His word are held fast by Him. The promise to keep them speaks of His faithful guarding of His own through whatever testing comes. Endurance is not a grim self-reliance but a clinging to Christ, and the One we cling to will not let us be lost in the storm. The hour may come for all the world, yet the church that kept His patience rests in the certainty that He keeps them. His care outlasts every trial the earth can bring.
Revelation 3:10 in the Original Language
hypomone (ὑπομονή), 'patience' -- steadfast endurance, the strength to remain faithful under pressure.
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What does Revelation 3:10 mean?
Because Philadelphia kept Christ's call to patient endurance, He promises to keep them through the coming hour of trial.