Revelation 2:3

And how you have persevered, and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

Revised King James 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 labour, and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil, and how you have tested those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them to be liars;

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

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Cross References

Luke 8:15But the seed on the good ground are those, who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 18:1And he spoke a parable to them to show that men ought always to pray, and not loose heart;

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

Romans 5:3And not only this, but we also rejoice in tribulations: knowing that tribulation works perseverance;

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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