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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Revelation 3:19

I, as many as I tenderly love, I convict and put under discipline: be zealous, therefore, and repent.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Backsliders;   Chastisement;   Church;   Commandments;   Jesus, the Christ;   Laodicea;   Repentance;   Wicked (People);   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Chastisement;   Commendation-Reproof;   Earnestness-Indifference;   Fervour;   Reproof;   Trials;   Words of Christ;   Zeal;   The Topic Concordance - Chastisement;   Coming;   Government;   Hearing;   Jesus Christ;   Love;   Rebuke;   Repentance;   Throne;   Victory/overcoming;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions;   Love of Christ, the;   Repentance;   Reproof;   Zeal;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Laodicea;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement;   Laodicea;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Zeal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Archippus;   Laodicea;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ascension;   Chasten, Chastisement;   Laodicea;   Letter Form and Function;   Repentance;   Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Archippus;   Asia;   Evil;   Laodicea;   Magi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Chastisement;   Discipline (2);   Laodicea;   Reproof;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Chastening;   Covet, to;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Sepharvaim;   Temptation;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Laodice'a;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chastening;   Colossians, Epistle to the;   Rebuke;   Revelation of John:;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 30;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"I correct and punish the people I love. So show that nothing is more important to you than living right. Change your hearts and lives.
Revised Standard Version
Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As many as I love I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therfore and repet.
Hebrew Names Version
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
New American Standard Bible
'Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
New Century Version
"I correct and punish those whom I love. So be eager to do right, and change your hearts and lives.
Update Bible Version
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Webster's Bible Translation
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
World English Bible
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous and repent.
Weymouth's New Testament
All whom I hold dear, I reprove and chastise; therefore be in earnest and repent.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y repreue, and chastise whom Y loue; therfor sue thou goode men, and do penaunce.
English Revised Version
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Berean Standard Bible
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Contemporary English Version
I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.
Amplified Bible
'Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God's will].
American Standard Version
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Bible in Basic English
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
Complete Jewish Bible
As for me, I rebuke and discipline everyone I love; so exert yourselves, and turn from your sins!
Darby Translation
I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.
International Standard Version
I correct and discipline those whom I love, so be serious and repent!Job 1:5:17; Proverbs 3:11-12; Hebrews 12:5-6; James 1:12;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
All those whom I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Murdock Translation
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be emulous therefore, and repent.
King James Version (1611)
As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore, and repent.
New Living Translation
I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.
New Life Bible
I speak strong words to those I love and I punish them. Have a strong desire to please the Lord. Be sorry for your sins and turn from them.
New Revised Standard
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.
English Standard Version
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and amend.
George Lamsa Translation
I rebuke and chastise all those whom I love: be zealous, therefore, and repent.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As many as I loue, I rebuke and chasten: Be feruent therfore, & repent.
Good News Translation
I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.
Christian Standard Bible®
As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline.
King James Version
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Lexham English Bible
As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent!
Literal Translation
I, as many "as I love, I rebuke and I chasten." Be zealous, then, and repent. Prov. 3:12
Young's Literal Translation
`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As many as I loue, I rebuke & chasten. Be feruent therfore and repent.
Mace New Testament (1729)
as many as I love, I rebuke and chastise: be warm therefore with zeal, and repent.
THE MESSAGE
"The people I love, I call to account—prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!
New English Translation
All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
New King James Version
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Listen, if I didn't care, I wouldn't be hard on you. Stand up and be a man and turn your back on the sorry ways that got you into this mess.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

Contextual Overview

14 And, unto the messenger of the assembly, in Laodicea, write: - These things, saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God: 15 I know thy works; - that neither, cold, art thou, nor hot: I would that, cold, thou hadst been, or hot. 16 Thus, because, lukewarm, thou art, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, Rich, am I, and have become enriched, and, of nothing, have I need, and knowest not that, thou, art the wretched one, and pitiable, and destitute, and blind, and naked, 18 I counsel thee to buy of me, gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich, - and white raiment, that thou mayest array thyself, and, the shame of thy nakedness, may not be made manifest, - and eye-salve, to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. 19 I, as many as I tenderly love, I convict and put under discipline: be zealous, therefore, and repent. 20 Lo! I am standing at the door, and knocking; if anyone shall hearken unto my voice, and open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and, he, with, me. 21 He that overcometh, I will give, unto him, to take his seat with me in my throne, as, I also, overcame, and took my seat with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what, the Spirit, is saying unto the assemblies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: Deuteronomy 8:5, 2 Samuel 7:14, Job 5:17, Psalms 6:1, Psalms 39:11, Psalms 94:10, Proverbs 3:11, Proverbs 3:12, Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 15:32, Proverbs 22:15, Isaiah 26:16, Jeremiah 2:30, Jeremiah 7:28, Jeremiah 10:24, Jeremiah 30:11, Jeremiah 31:18, Zephaniah 3:2, 1 Corinthians 11:32, 2 Corinthians 6:9, Hebrews 12:5-11, James 1:12

be: Numbers 25:11-13, Psalms 69:9, John 2:17, Romans 12:11, 2 Corinthians 7:11, Galatians 4:18, Titus 2:14

repent: Revelation 2:5, Revelation 2:21, Revelation 2:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:12 - who Genesis 20:16 - thus Genesis 29:25 - wherefore 2 Samuel 12:14 - the child 2 Samuel 24:12 - that I may 1 Kings 13:21 - thou hast disobeyed 1 Chronicles 4:10 - that it may 1 Chronicles 21:10 - that I may 2 Chronicles 16:12 - diseased 2 Chronicles 20:1 - came against 2 Chronicles 20:37 - the Lord Job 22:4 - reprove Job 33:19 - chastened Job 35:15 - visited Psalms 23:3 - restoreth Psalms 50:21 - will Psalms 73:5 - They are Psalms 85:8 - but Psalms 94:12 - teachest Psalms 119:75 - thou in Psalms 141:5 - the righteous Proverbs 1:23 - my reproof Proverbs 17:10 - General Proverbs 19:25 - reprove Proverbs 27:6 - the wounds Ecclesiastes 7:5 - better Song of Solomon 5:6 - but my Isaiah 1:25 - And I Isaiah 37:3 - General Isaiah 48:10 - I have refined Jeremiah 24:5 - them that are carried away captive Jeremiah 46:28 - will I Ezekiel 3:21 - if thou Hosea 5:2 - a rebuker Hosea 7:12 - as their Hosea 7:15 - bound Jonah 4:8 - that God Micah 6:9 - hear Haggai 1:9 - Because Matthew 16:9 - ye not Matthew 25:7 - General Matthew 26:74 - saying Mark 4:13 - Know Mark 8:33 - he rebuked Mark 16:14 - and upbraided Luke 1:20 - because Luke 9:55 - and rebuked John 11:3 - he John 15:2 - and John 16:27 - the Father John 21:17 - the third Romans 8:28 - we know 1 Corinthians 11:30 - many 1 Corinthians 16:24 - love 2 Corinthians 7:8 - though I made 1 Timothy 1:20 - that 2 Timothy 4:2 - reprove Hebrews 12:6 - whom Revelation 2:16 - Repent Revelation 3:3 - repent

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, - The woman whom thou didst put with me, she, gave me of the tree, so I did eat.
Genesis 3:13
Then said Yahweh God to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent, deceived me, so I did eat.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman, he said, I will, increase, thy pain of pregnancy, In pain, shalt thou year children, - Yet, unto thy husband, shall be thy hinging, Though, he, rule over thee.
Genesis 3:21
And Yahweh God made for the man - and for his wife - tunics of skin and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
Then said Yahweh God - Lo! man, hath become like one of us, in respect of knowing good and evil, - Now, therefore, lest he thrust forth his hand, and take even of the tree of life, and eat, and live to times age-abiding, -
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham responded and said, - Behold I pray thee I have ventured to speak unto My Lord, though I am dust and ashes:
Genesis 23:4
A sojourner and settler, am I with you, - Give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, That I may bury my dead, from before me.
Job 1:21
and said - Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked must I return thither, Yahweh, gave, and, Yahweh, hath taken away, - The name of Yahweh be blessed!
Job 19:26
And, though, after my skin is struck off, this followeth , yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:
Job 21:26
Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As many as I love I rebuke and chasten,.... The persons the objects of Christ's love here intended are not angels, but the sons of men; and these not all of them, yet many of them, even all who are his own by his Father's gift and his own purchase; and who are called his church, and sometimes represented as such who love him and obey his commands: the instances of his love to them are many; as his suretyship engagements for them, his assumption of their nature, dying in their room and stead, paying their debts, procuring their peace and pardon, bringing in a righteousness for them, purchasing their persons, his intercession for them, preparations in heaven, supplies of grace, and frequent visits in a kind and familiar manner; and as for the nature of his love, it is free and sovereign, everlasting and immutable, and it is matchless and inconceivable, it is strong and affectionate, and as his Father loved him; and such are rebuked by Christ, not in a way of wrath, but in a tender manner, in order to bring them under a conviction of their sin and of their duty, and of their folly in trusting in, or loving any creature more than himself, and of all their wrong ways; and they are chastened by him, not in a vindictive, but in a fatherly way, which is instructive and teaching to them, and for their good. This seems to refer to some afflictions which Christ was about to bring upon this church, by some means or another, to awaken her out of her sloth and security, and which would be in love to her, and the end be to rouse her zeal and bring her to repentance. Some think this respects the Gog and Magog army, which will encompass the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; but that will not be till after the thousand years' reign, and besides will be no affliction to them; rather it designs the unchurching them, signified by spewing them out of his mouth, Revelation 3:16;

be zealous, therefore, and repent; zeal was what was wanting in this church; which is nothing else than hot, fervent, and ardent love, love in a flame; whereas she was neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, Christ would have her be "zealous" for God; for his cause and interest, for his Gospel, ordinances, and the discipline of his house, and against everything that is evil; against all false worship, all errors in doctrine, all sin and iniquity; and to be zealous of good works, and in the worship of God, both private and public: and "repent"; in an evangelical way, of her lukewarnmess, remissness, and supineness; of her pride, arrogance, and vain boastings of herself; and of her self-sufficience, self-dependence, and self-confidence.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As 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 expressed fully explained in the notes on Hebrews 12:6. The language is taken from Proverbs 3:12.

Be zealous therefore, and repent - Be earnest, strenuous, ardent in your purpose to exercise true repentance, and to turn from the error of your ways. Lose no time; spare no labor, that you may obtain such a state of mind that it shall not be necessary to bring upon you the severe discipline which always comes on those who continue lukewarm in religion. The truth taught here is, that when the professed followers of Christ have become lukewarm in his service, they should lose no time in returning to him, anti seeking his favor again. As sure as he has any true love for them, if this is not done he will bring upon them some heavy calamity, alike to rebuke them for their errors, and to recover them to himself.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 3:19. As 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.


 
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