Revelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalms 94:10He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
Proverbs 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives 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 →