Revelation 2:3
Good News Translation
You are patient, you have suffered for my sake, and you have not given up.

New Revised Standard Version
I also know that you are enduring patiently and bearing up for the sake of my name, and that you have not grown weary.

Contemporary English Version
You have endured and gone through hard times because of me, yet you have not given up.

New American Bible
Moreover, you have endurance and have suffered for my name, and you have not grown weary.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted.

hast borne.

Psalm 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Micah 7:9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.

Mark 15:21 And they forced one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and of Rufus, to take up his cross.

Luke 14:27 And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

1 Corinthians 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

hast patience.

Revelation 1:9 I, John, your brother and your partner in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island which is called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Psalm 37:7 Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience.

Luke 21:19 In your patience you shall possess your souls.

Romans 2:7 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

Romans 5:3,4 And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; . . .

Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

Romans 15:4,5 For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope. . . .

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the patience of Christ.

Hebrews 6:12,15 That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises. . . .

Hebrews 10:36 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:3,4 Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience . . .

James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. . . .

2 Peter 1:6 And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, godliness:

hast laboured.

Romans 16:12 Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 16:16 That you also be subject to such and to every one that worketh with us and laboureth.

2 Corinthians 5:9 And therefore we labour, whether absent or present, to please him.

2 Corinthians 6:5 In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

2 Corinthians 10:15 Not glorying beyond measure in other men's labours: but having hope of your increasing faith, to be magnified in you according to our rule abundantly.

2 Corinthians 11:23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Philippians 2:16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 4:3 And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you;

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

1 Timothy 5:17 Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honour: especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

hast not.

Luke 18:1 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,

2 Corinthians 4:1,16 Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not. . . .

Galatians 6:9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

2 Thessalonians 3:13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

Hebrews 12:3-5 For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds. . . .

Context
To the Church in Ephesus
2I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars: 3And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted. 4But I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity.…
Cross References
Luke 5:5
And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

Luke 8:15
But that on the good ground are they who in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience.

John 15:21
But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

Hebrews 12:3
For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds.

Revelation 2:2
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