19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
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My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: …
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: …
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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…
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