Revelation 2:19

Love for others Faith Serving others Patience

¹⁷ He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

¹⁸ To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.

I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.

²⁰ But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

²¹ Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.
KJV: I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
WEB: “I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
ASV: I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.
DARBY: I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and thine endurance, and thy last works [to be] more than the first.
BLB: I know your works, and your love and faith and service and perseverance; and your last works [are] more than the first.

ÅB: Jeg vet om dine gjerninger og din kjærlighet og tjeneste og tro og tålmodighet, og dine siste gjerninger, som er flere enn de første.
OTB: Jeg kjenner dine gjerninger, din kjærlighet og tro, din tjeneste og utholdenhet, og at dine siste gjerninger er større enn de første.
B1930: Jeg vet om dine gjerninger og din kjærlighet og tjeneste og tro og tålmodighet, og dine siste gjerninger, som er flere enn de første.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Timothy 1:5
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
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2 Peter 1:7
and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
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John 15:2
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
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2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
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Revelation 2:2–4
I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
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1 Corinthians 13:1–8
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
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1 Thessalonians 3:6
But just now, Timothy has returned from his visit with the good news about your faith, your love, and the fond memories you have preserved, longing to see us just as we long to see you.
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2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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