Revelation 2:21

And I gave to her time, that she should do penance, and she would not do penance of her fornication. (And I gave her time, so that she would repent, but she would not repent of her fornication, or of her idolatry, or her immorality.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

In Context

20But I have against thee a few things; for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, which saith that she is a prophetess, (or for thou hast allowed the woman Jezebel, who saith that she is a prophetess), to teach and deceive my servants, to do lechery, and to eat of things offered to idols.

22And lo! I send her into a bed, and they that do lechery with her shall be in most tribulation, [no] but they do penance of her works. (And behold! I shall send her into a bed, and those who do lechery with her shall suffer greatly, unless they repent of their works.)

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Cross References

Romans 2:4Whether thou despisest the riches of his goodness, and the patience, and the long abiding? Knowest thou not, that the benignity, [or (the) good will], of God leadeth thee to forthinking, (or to repenting), [or to penance]?

1 Peter 3:20which were sometime unbelieveful, when they abided the patience of God in the days of Noe (or of Noah), when the ship [or the ark] was made, in which a few, that is to say, eight souls were made safe by water (or eight lives were saved through water).

2 Peter 3:15And deem ye (that the) long abiding of our Lord Jesus Christ (is) your health (or And understand well that the patience that our Lord Jesus Christ hath with us is our salvation), as also our most dear brother Paul wrote to you, by wisdom given to him.

Revelation 16:9And men sweltered with great heat, and blasphemed the name of (the) God having power on these plagues, neither they did penance, that they should give glory to him. (And men were parched by the great heat, and blasphemed the name of the God who had power over these plagues, but they did not repent, so that they would give him glory.)

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 →

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