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 slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Matt 6:24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
• 1 Kgs 18:21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
• Jas 1:8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
• Rev 2:4Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
• Ps 81:11–13But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
• Matt 24:12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
• Zeph 1:5–6And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
• Prov 23:26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Rev 3:1And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
• Matt 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• Deut 5:29O that there were such an 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 for ever!
• Luke 14:27–28And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• Rev 2:2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
• Hos 10:2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
• Josh 24:15–24And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• Hos 7:8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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