Revelation 2:3
and you bore, and have endurance, and have toiled because of My Name, and have not been weary.
Literal Standard Version
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
4But I have against you that you left your first love!
Cross References
Psalms 37:7Be silent for YHWH, and stay yourself for Him, || Do not fret because of him || Who is making his way prosperous, || Because of a man doing wicked schemes.
Micah 7:9I bear the indignation of YHWH, || For I have sinned against Him, || Until He pleads my cause, || And has executed my judgment, || He brings me forth to the light, || I look on His righteousness.
Luke 8:15And that in the good ground: these are they who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, retain [it], and bear fruit in continuance.
Luke 18:1And He also spoke an allegory to them, that it is always necessary to pray and not to faint,
John 15:21but all these things will they do to you, because of My Name, because they have not known Him who sent Me;
Romans 5:3And not only [so], but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation works endurance;
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 →