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 3:18

3:18 take my advice ⁸  and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me ⁹  white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness ¹⁰  will not be exposed, and buy eye salve ¹¹  to put on your eyes so you can see!

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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 Grk “I counsel you to buy.”

⁹ tn Grk “rich, and.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation, repeating the words “Buy from me” to make the connection clear for the English reader.

¹⁰ tn Grk “the shame of the nakedness of you,” which has been translated as an attributed genitive like καινότητι ζωῆς (kainothti zwh") in Rom 6:4 (ExSyn 89-90).

¹¹ sn The city of Laodicea had a famous medical school and exported a powder (called a “Phrygian powder”) that was widely used as an eye salve. It was applied to the eyes in the form of a paste the consistency of dough (the Greek term for the salve here, κολλούριον, kollourion [Latin collyrium], is a diminutive form of the word for a long roll of bread).