Revelation 2:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Revelation 2:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
2 John 1:9-10
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. …
Revelation 2:14-15
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. …
Psalms 26:5
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalms 139:21-22
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? …

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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. 6)

6. But--How graciously, after necessary censure, He returns to praise for our consolation, and as an example to us, that we would show, when we reprove, we have more pleasure in praising than in fault-finding. hatest the deeds--We should hate men’s evil deeds, not hate the men themselves. Nicolaitanes--Irenæus [Against Heresies, 1.26.3] and Tertullian [Prescription against Heretics, 46] make these…