Revelation 2:3

and that you have patience, and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not fainted.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

In Context

2I know your works, and your labor, and your patience; and that you can not bear with those who are evil, and that you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars;

4But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

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Cross References

Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are those who, in a good and honest heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 18:1And he spoke a parable to them, that they ought always to pray, and not to become weary,

John 15:21But all these things they will do to you on my account, because they know not him that sent me.

Romans 5:3And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,

Matthew Henry on Revelation 2:2-8

The Church in Ephesus. ( a. d. 95.) 1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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