11 translations · Greek
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3:19 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- KJV King James Version
- As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- ASV American Standard Version
- As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- As many as I cherish, I convict and discipline; be zealous, then, and convert;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Those I love I correct and discipline. So be really sincere, and repent.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;
- DBY Darby Translation
- I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and do penance.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐγὼ | egō | I | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| ὅσους | hosous | Those | G3745 ὅσος just as/how much |
| ἐὰν | ean | — | G1437 ἐάν if |
| φιλῶ | philō | love | G5368 φιλέω to love |
| ἐλέγχω | elenchō | I rebuke | G1651 ἐλέγχω to rebuke |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| παιδεύω | paideuō | discipline | G3811 παιδεύω to instruct |
| ζήλευε | zēleue | be earnest | G2206 ζηλόω be eager |
| οὖν | oun | Therefore | G3767 οὖν therefore/then |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| μετανόησον | metanoēson | repent | G3340 μετανοέω to repent |
Related verses
- Proverbs 3:11–12
My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof: for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- Hebrews 12:5–11
and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? …
- Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- Revelation 2:5
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Jeremiah 31:18
“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Jeremiah 10:24
Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.
- 2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
- Deuteronomy 8:5
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
- 2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
21 He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Read all of Revelation 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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