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Revelation 3:19
Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the church in Laodicea immediately after counseling them to buy refined gold, white garments, and eye salve (Rev 3:18), and right before promising to dine with whoever opens His door (Rev 3:20).
The words — ἐλέγχω (elegchō) and παιδεύω (paideuō) literally describe exposing fault and training or correcting. ζήλευε (zēleue) commands a state of earnest zeal.
The thread — The text links this corrective action to Proverbs 3:11, 1 Corinthians 11:32, and Hebrews 12:5, where divine judgment is consistently presented as training for His people rather than final condemnation.
Why it lands — The verse states that the Lord’s love actively produces rebuke and discipline, requiring the listener to respond with zealous repentance rather than spiritual complacency.
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The Greek words
King James Version
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 3:11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- 1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
- Hebrews 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Revelation 2:5 Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
- Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Jeremiah 10:24 Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
- 2 Corinthians 7:11 Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
- Deuteronomy 8:5 So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
- 2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.