Revelation 3:19

Christ reproves and disciplines those he loves and calls them to be zealous and repent. It matters because his rebuke is an expression of love seeking their restoration.

Cross-references · 30

• Prov 3:11–12My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
• 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
• Heb 12:5–11and 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;
• Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
• Rev 2:5Remember 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.
• 2 Cor 7:11For 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.
• Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Jer 10:24Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
• Prov 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• 2 Sam 7:14I 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;
• Rev 2:21–22I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
• Deut 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
• Prov 15:32He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
• Jer 7:28You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
• Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
• Ps 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
• Ps 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
• John 2:17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
• Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Ps 94:10He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
• Prov 15:10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
• Rom 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Ps 6:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
• Jer 30:11For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• Num 25:11–13“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
• 2 Cor 6:9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
• Gal 4:18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
• Jer 2:30“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Zeph 3:2She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

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