How Do We Keep the Word of His Perserverance?

You know that warning about not adding words to the Bible? I think of it whenever I read passages like this:

You have kept my command to endure patiently… (Revelation 3:10a)

That’s from the NIV translation and it conveys the idea that you have been commanded to endure life’s struggles with fortitute and long-suffering. That is NOT what Jesus is saying here.

Read that passage in a literal translation or a word-for-word translation such as the NASB and it says this:

Because you hav...