Revelation 2:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

Revelation 2:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
James 5:7-11
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. …
Galatians 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
James 1:3-4
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Church Congregation Ecclesiasticism Fraternity Intolerance, Religious

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

We have here, I. The inscription, where observe, 1. To whom the first of these epistles is directed: To the church of Ephesus, a famous church planted by the apostle Paul (Acts 19:1-41), and afterwards watered and governed by John, who had his residence very much there. We can hardly think that Timothy was the angel, or sole pastor and bishop, of this church at this time,—that he who was of a very…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. borne ... patience--The oldest manuscripts transpose these words. Then translate as Greek, “persevering endurance ... borne.” “Thou hast borne” My reproach, but “thou canst not bear the evil” (Re 2:2). A beautiful antithesis. and ... hast laboured, and hast not fainted--The two oldest manuscripts and oldest versions read, “and ... hast not labored,” omitting “and hast fainted.” The difficulty w…