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

17For you say, ‘I am rich, I have made myself wealthy, and I need nothing.’ But you do not know that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked. 18I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may dress yourself and so the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed, and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore, 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 will dine with him, and he with Me. 21To the one who overcomes I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I myself overcame 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 8:5Now you know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Adonai your God disciplines you.
• 2 Samuel 7:14I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me. If he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and with the strokes from sons of men.
• Job 5:17Behold, happy is the one whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of Shaddai.
• Psalms 6:1For the music director, on the eight-string lyre, a psalm of David.
• Psalms 39:11Remove Your scourge from me. I perish by the blow of Your hand.
• Psalms 94:10He who chastens nations, will He not rebuke— One who teaches humanity knowledge?
• Proverbs 3:11My son, never despise Adonai’s discipline or dread His correction.
• Proverbs 15:10Stern correction awaits one who forsakes the way. One who hates reproof will die.
• Proverbs 15:32Whoever avoids correction despises himself, but whoever heeds reproof acquires understanding.
• Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but a rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
• Isaiah 26:16Adonai, they sought You in distress, they poured out a whispered prayer when Your discipline was upon them.
• Jeremiah 2:30“In vain I struck your children. They took no correction. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.”
• Jeremiah 7:28So you will say to them, ‘This nation has not obeyed the voice of Adonai their God or received correction. Truth has perished and is cut off from their mouth.
• Jeremiah 10:24Chasten me, Adonai, but with justice, not in Your anger, lest You reduce me to nothing.
• Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you,” declares Adonai, “to save you, for I will make a full end of all the nations where I scatter you. but I will not make a full end of you. For I will discipline you justly, but will not leave you unpunished.”
• Jeremiah 31:18For after I returned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I struck my thigh— I was ashamed and also humiliated, for I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

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

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• Lukewarm
• Naked
• 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