Revelation 3:19

I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.

Darby Translation

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 of me gold purified by fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white garments, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not be made manifest; and eye-salve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

20Behold, I stand at the door and am knocking; if any one hear my voice and open the door, I will come in unto him and sup with him, and he with me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5And know in thy heart that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee;

Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.

Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalms 94:10He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct he that teacheth man knowledge?

Proverbs 15:10Grievous correction is for him that forsaketh the path; he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound in the heart of a child; 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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