Revelation 3:15

Christ knows they are neither cold nor hot and wishes they were one or the other. It matters because spiritual lukewarmness is offensive to Christ.

Cross-references · 22

• Rom 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Matt 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
• 1 Kgs 18:21Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
• Jas 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
• Ps 81:11–13But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
• Matt 24:12Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
• Zeph 1:5–6those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
• Prov 23:26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• Matt 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
• Deut 5:29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
• Luke 14:27–28Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Hos 10:2Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
• Josh 24:15–24If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
• Hos 7:8Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

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