Revelation 2:19 “I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseveran…”

Revelation 2:19

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

American Standard Version

I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

Geneva Bible 1599

I knowe thy workes and thy loue, and seruice, and faith, and thy patience, and thy workes, and that they are more at the last, then at the first.

Darby Translation

I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and thine endurance, and thy last works [to be] more than the first.

Young's Literal Translation

I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works — and the last [are] more than the first.

Bible in Basic English

I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.

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Cross references

“know”

Revelation 2:9 Revelation 2:13 Revelation 2:2

Revelation 2:9 · BSB

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 2:13 · BSB

I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits, yet you hold fast to My name. You did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of My faithful witness Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.

Revelation 2:2 · BSB

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.

“charity”

1 Timothy 1:5 2 Thessalonians 1:3 2 Peter 1:7 1 Corinthians 13:1–8 Colossians 3:14 1 Thessalonians 3:6

1 Timothy 1:5 · BSB

The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 · BSB

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.

2 Peter 1:7 · BSB

and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

1 Corinthians 13:1–8 · BSB

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.

Colossians 3:14 · BSB

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

1 Thessalonians 3:6 · BSB

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.

“patience”

Revelation 2:3

Revelation 2:3 · BSB

Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.

“the last”

John 15:2 2 Peter 3:18 Psalm 92:14 Job 17:9 Proverbs 4:18 Revelation 2:4

John 15:2 · BSB

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.

2 Peter 3:18 · BSB

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.

Psalm 92:14 · BSB

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

Job 17:9 · BSB

Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

Proverbs 4:18 · BSB

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Revelation 2:4 · BSB

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18To 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.

20But 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.

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