Revelation 2:3

And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 doings and your toil and patient suffering. And I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, but have put to the test those who say that they themselves are Apostles but are not, and you have found them to be liars.

4Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.

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Cross References

Luke 8:15But as for that in the good ground, it means those who, having listened to the Message with open minds and in a right spirit, hold it fast, and patiently yield a return.

Luke 18:1He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart.

John 15:21But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

Romans 5:3And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces 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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