Revelation 3:19
As many as I cherish, I convict and discipline; be zealous, then, and convert;
Literal 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 you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,
Job 5:17Behold, the blessedness of mortal man, || God reproves him: And do not despise the discipline of the Mighty,
Psalms 39:11With reproofs against iniquity, || You have corrected man, || And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, || Only, every man [is] vanity. Selah.
Psalms 94:10He who is instructing nations, does He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] YHWH.
Proverbs 15:10Discipline [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, || Whoever is hating reproof dies.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, || The rod of discipline puts 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 →