Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

In Context

18I counsel thee to buy from me gold refined from fire, so that thou may become wealthy, and white garments, so that thou may clothe thyself, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made known, and eye-salve, so that thou may anoin

20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.

Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Psalms 39:11When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalms 94:10He who chastises the nations, shall he not correct, [even] he who teaches man knowledge?

Proverbs 15:10There is grievous correction for him who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof shall die.

Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 3:15-22

The Church in Laodicea. ( a. d. 95.) 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and… Read the whole commentary →

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