Revelation 2:22
Lo! I cast her into a bed, and them who are committing adultery with her, into great tribulation,—except they repent out of her works;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
21and I gave her time, that she might repent, and she willeth not to repent out of her lewdness.
Cross References
Jeremiah 36:3Peradventure, the house of Judah will hearken unto all the calamity, which I am devising to execute against them,—to the end they may return every man from his wicked way, whereupon I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin.
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore, Every man according to his own ways, will I judge you O house of Israel, Declareth My Lord Yahweh, Return ye—and make good your return—from all your transgressions, That they become not unto you a stumbling block of iniquity.
Ezekiel 23:45But righteous men, they, shall judge them, With the judgment of adulteresses, and With the judgment of women that shed blood,— Because adulteresses, they are And blood, is on their hands.
Zephaniah 3:7I said, Surely thou wilt reverence, Me, wilt accept correction, lest her abode, should be cut of, howsoever I had punished her; but, in truth, they soon corrupted all their deeds.
Luke 13:5Nay! I tell you, but, except ye repent, ye, all, in the same way, shall perish.
2 Timothy 2:25In meekness, bringing under discipline them that oppose themselves, lest at any time God should give them repentance unto a personal knowledge of truth,
Matthew Henry on Revelation 2:19-29
The Church in Thyatira. ( a. d. 95.) 18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; 19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit… Read the whole commentary →