Revelation 2:3
and hast borne, and hast exercised patience, and for my name sake hast endured great toil, and hast not fainted.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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
4Yet have I a charge against thee, that thou art gone back from thy first love.
Cross References
Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they who having heard the word, retain it in a heart excellent and good, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke 18:1THEN he spake also to them a parable, to shew that we ought to pray always, and not faint;
John 15:21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;
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 →