Revelation 3:5

3:5 The one who conquers ¹  will be dressed like them ²  in white clothing, ³  and I will never ⁴  erase ⁵  his name from the book of life, but ⁶  will declare ⁷  his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 3:12

3:12 The one who conquers ⁸  I will make ⁹  a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I ¹⁰  will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), ¹¹  and my new name as well.

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¹ tn Or “who overcomes.”

² tn Grk “thus.”

³ tn Or “white robes.”

⁴ tn The negation here is with οὐ μή (ou mh), the strongest possible form of negation in Koine Greek.

⁵ tn Or “will never wipe out.”

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

⁷ tn Grk “will confess.”

⁸ tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

⁹ tn Grk “I will make him,” but the pronoun (αὐτόν, auton, “him”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹¹ sn This description of the city of my God is parenthetical, explaining further the previous phrase and interrupting the list of “new names” given here.