Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5And thou shalt consider 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 thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Psalms 94:10He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, [Even] he that teacheth man knowledge?
Proverbs 15:10There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; [And] he that hateth 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 →