Revelation 3:20-21

3:20 Listen! ¹  I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home ²  and share a meal with him, and he with me. 3:21 I will grant the one ³  who conquers ⁴  permission ⁵  to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered ⁶  and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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¹ tn Grk “Behold.”

² tn Grk “come in to him.”

sn The expression in Greek does not mean entrance into the person, as is popularly taken, but entrance into a room or building toward the person. See ExSyn 380-82. Some interpreters understand the door here to be the door to the Laodicean church, and thus a collective or corporate image rather than an individual one.

³ tn Grk “The one who conquers, to him I will grant.”

⁴ tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

⁵ tn Grk “I will give [grant] to him.”

⁶ tn Or “have been victorious”; traditionally, “have overcome.”