Revelation 3:19

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

King James Version

In Context

18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalms 94:10He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

Proverbs 15:10Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive 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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