Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5You shall also consider in yours heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
Psalms 39:11When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 94:10He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?
Proverbs 15:10Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates 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 →