Revelation 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Revelation 3:15 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
James 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Revelation 2:4
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Topics

Indecision Laodicea Lukewarmness

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-22)

We now come to the last and worst of all the seven Asian churches, the reverse of the church of Philadelphia; for, as there was nothing reproved in that, here is nothing commended in this, and yet this was one of the seven golden candlesticks, for a corrupt church may still be a church. Here we have, as before, I. The inscription, to whom, and from whom. 1. To whom: To the angel of the church of L…

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

(vv. 15)

15. neither cold--The antithesis to “hot,” literally, “boiling” (“fervent,” Ac 18:25; Ro 12:11; compare So 8:6; Lu 24:32), requires that “cold” should here mean more than negatively cold; it is rather, positively icy cold: having never yet been warmed. The Laodiceans were in spiritual things cold comparatively, but not cold as the world outside, and as those who had never belonged to the Church. T…