Revelation 3:19
Good News Translation
I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.

New Revised Standard Version
I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.

Contemporary English Version
I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.

New American Bible
Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

many.

Deuteronomy 8:5 That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

2 Samuel 7:14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

Job 5:17 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Psalm 6:1 Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. [2] O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Psalm 39:11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Psalm 94:10 He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?

Proverbs 3:11,12 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself. . . .

Proverbs 15:10 Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs 15:32 He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Isaiah 26:16 Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.

Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.

Jeremiah 7:28 And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: faith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.

Jeremiah 10:24 Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment: and not in thy fury, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

Jeremiah 31:18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

Zephaniah 3:2 She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her God.

1 Corinthians 11:32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

2 Corinthians 6:9 As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:

Hebrews 12:5-11 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. . . .

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.

be.

Numbers 25:11-13 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal. . . .

Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

John 2:17 And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

Romans 12:11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence, yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter.

Galatians 4:18 But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

repent.

Revelation 2:5,21,22 Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance and do the first works. Or else I come to thee and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou do penance. . . .

Context
To the Church in Laodicea
18I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance. 20Behold, I stand at the gate and knock. If any man shall hear my voice and open to me the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him: and he with me.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5
That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.

Proverbs 3:12
Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence:

1 Corinthians 11:32
But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

Hebrews 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Revelation 2:5
Be mindful therefore from whence thou art fallen: and do penance and do the first works. Or else I come to thee and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou do penance.

Revelation 3:18
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