Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

In Context

18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Psalms 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 94:10He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Proverbs 15:10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way. Whoever hates reproof shall die.

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

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