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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
• New Living Translation (NLT)I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.

Context of Revelation 3:19

17For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 21The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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 8:5Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
• 2 Samuel 7:14I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
• Job 5:17"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
• Psalms 6:1O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.
• Psalms 39:11When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
• Psalms 94:10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge—
• Proverbs 3:11My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
• Proverbs 15:10There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die.
• Proverbs 15:32Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
• Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Isaiah 26:16O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
• Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
• Jeremiah 7:28And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
• Jeremiah 10:24Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
• Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the Lord; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
• Jeremiah 31:18I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my 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

In the dictionaries

• Angel
• Chasten
• Cold
• Counsel
• Dead
• Lukewarm
• Naked
• Poor
• Rich
• Apocrypha

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