Revelation 3:19

Revelation 3:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• New International Version (NIV)Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
• New King James Version (NKJV)As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

Context of Revelation 3:19

17You say, ‘I am rich. God has helped me to have many things. I do not need anything more.’ But you do not know how very poor you are really! You are like people who cannot see. You are like people who are without clothes. Really, other people should feel very sorry for you. 18So I tell you that you should buy gold from me. With my gold, you would be really rich. My gold is the best, because it has been through fire. You should also buy white clothes from me to dress yourselves. Then you will not be ashamed because you have no clothes. You should also buy medicine from me to put on your eyes. Then you will be able to see well. I help everyone that I love. When they have done wrong things, I tell them, ‘You have done a wrong thing.’ I show them the right thing that they should do. So be serious about how you live. Stop doing wrong things and turn to me. 20Look! I am standing at the door of your house. I am knocking on your door. When you hear my voice, you should open the door. Then I will come in. We will eat a meal together as friends. 21Everyone who wins against Satan will come to sit with me on my throne where I rule. I won against my enemies. Then I sat down with my Father on his throne. I will give you the same authority.

Revelation 3:19 word by word

ἐγὼ ὅσους ἐὰν φιλῶ ἐλέγχω καὶ παιδεύω. ζήλευε οὖν καὶ μετανόησον.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• As many asὅσοςhosos · just as/how muchG3745
• Iἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• loveφιλέωphileō · to loveG5368
• rebukeἐλέγχωelegchō · to rebukeG1651
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• chastenπαιδεύωpaideuō · to instructG3811
• be zealousζηλόωzēloō · be eagerG2206
• thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• repentμετανοέωmetanoeō · to repentG3340
• ·ἐάνean · ifG1437

Cross-references for Revelation 3:19

• Deuteronomy 8:5You should realize that the Lord your God wants you to learn what is right. When he punishes you, he is warning you. That is what a parent does to teach his child.
• 2 Samuel 7:14I will be his father and he will be my son. When he does something wrong, I will punish him, so that he learns to do what is right. I will punish him in the way that human fathers punish their sons.
• Job 5:17If Almighty God warns you to do what is right, he has blessed you. So do not be upset when he decides to do that.
• Psalms 6:1Lord, when you are angry, please do not punish me.
• Psalms 39:11When people do wrong things, you warn them and you punish them. You destroy their valuable things, like a moth eats cloth! Yes, our lives are only a breath! Selah.
• Psalms 94:10He teaches the nations what is right. Will he not punish you, when you do what is wrong? He teaches people what they should know.
• Proverbs 3:11My child, if the Lord warns you that you have done something wrong, accept it. Do not be upset if he warns you.
• Proverbs 15:10If you leave God's way, you will receive strong punishment. When people warn you, accept it or you will die.
• Proverbs 15:32If you refuse to accept it when people warn you, you are hurting yourself. But if you agree to listen, you will learn to do what is right.
• Proverbs 22:15Children love to do foolish things. To stop them, you must warn and punish them.
• Isaiah 26:16Lord, when your people had trouble, they came to you for help. When you punished them, they turned to you and they prayed.
• Jeremiah 2:30‘When I punished your people, they did not change how they lived. When I sent my prophets to you, you killed them as if you were a hungry lion.’
• Jeremiah 7:28So you must tell them, “The people of this nation have not obeyed the Lord their God. When I warned them, they have not agreed to change. Nobody does what is right. Nobody even speaks about what is true.
• Jeremiah 10:24Lord, teach us what is right, but do it carefully. Please do not punish us in your anger. That would be the end of us.
• Jeremiah 30:11The Lord says, ‘I am with you and I will save you. I have sent you away to live in foreign lands. That was the punishment that you deserved. I will completely destroy the nations where I sent you to live. But I will not completely destroy you. I will certainly punish you, but only as much as you deserve.’
• Jeremiah 31:18‘I have heard Israel's people when they are sad. They say to me, “You punished us, and we accepted it. You taught us to obey you, like a farmer teaches an ox to work for him. So let us come back to serve you. We are ready to return to you, because you are the Lord, our God.

Commentaries on Revelation 3:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19As many as I love - So it was the love he still had to them that induced him thus to reprehend and thus to counsel them. Be zealous - Be in earnest, to get your souls saved, They had no zeal; this was their bane. He now stirs them up to diligence in the use of the means of grace and repentance for their past sins and remissness.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten - Of course, only on the supposition that they deserve it. The meaning is, that it is a proof of love on his part, if his professed friends go astray, to recall them by admonitions and by trials. So a father calls back his children who are disobedient; and there is no higher proof of his love than when, with great pain to himself, he administers such chastisement as shall save his child. See the sentiment here…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Laodicea was the last and worst of the seven churches of Asia. Here our Lord Jesus styles himself, "The Amen;" one steady and unchangeable in all his purposes and promises. If religion is worth anything, it is worth every thing. Christ expects men should be in earnest. How many professors of gospel doctrine are neither hot nor cold; except as they are indifferent in needful matters, and hot and fiery in disputes about things of lesser moment!…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19Christ will correct and guide those he loves instead of rejecting them (Proverbs 3:11–12; Hebrews 12:5–6). He remains faithful even to those who are unfaithful (2 Timothy 2:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. (Job 5:17; Pr 3:11, 12; He 12:5, 6.) So in the case of Manasseh (2Ch 33:11-13). As many--All. "He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. And shalt thou be an exception? If excepted from suffering the scourge, thou art excepted from the number of the sons" [Augustine]. This is an encouragement to Laodicea not to despair, but to regard the rebuke as a token for good, if she profit by it. I love--Greek, "philo," the love of gratuitous affection…Read the comment

Topics related to Revelation 3:19

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
• Chastisement
• Church
• Commandments
• Jesus, the Christ
• Laodicea
• Repentance
• Wicked (People)
• Zeal, Religious

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• Poor
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Commentaries on Revelation 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings