Revelation 2:3

You are holding fast, and have borne up for my names’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Montgomery 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

2I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

4But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

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Cross References

Luke 8:15"And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 18:1He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

John 15:21"But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

Romans 5:3And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

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 →

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