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

17Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, 18take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see! All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent! 20Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me. 21I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too 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 8:5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.
• 2 Samuel 7:14I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.
• Job 5:17“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
• Psalms 6:1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger! Do not discipline me in your raging fury!
• Psalms 39:11You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
• Psalms 94:10Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
• Proverbs 3:11My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.
• Proverbs 15:10Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.
• Proverbs 15:32The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever hears reproof acquires understanding.
• Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
• Isaiah 26:16O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.
• Jeremiah 2:30“It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”
• Jeremiah 7:28So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.
• Jeremiah 10:24Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.
• Jeremiah 30:11For I, the Lord, affirm that I will be with you and will rescue you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”
• Jeremiah 31:18I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, ‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for 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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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