Revelation Chapter 2 verse 21 Holy Bible
And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
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And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.
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And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.
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And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
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I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
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and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - Here again the Revised Version must be preferred; the Authorized Version follows a corrupt Greek text. With the construction, "I gave her time that (ἵνα) she should repent," comp. Revelation 8:3; Revelation 9:5; Revelation 12:14; Revelation 19:8; John 17:4; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 5:20. With "willeth not to repent," comp. John 6:21, 67; John 7:17; John 8:44. Jezebel "despised the riches of Christ's forbearance and long suffering, not believing that his goodness led her to repentance" (Romans 2:4). The whole passage should be compared with this (see also Ecclesiastes 8:11-13; Psalm 10:6; 2 Peter 3:3, 4, 9).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) And I gave her space.--Read, And I gave her time to repent, and she will not (or, is not willing to) repent of her fornication, or, to repent out of--i.e., so as to forsake her fornication. Here, as before, we are reminded that true repentance is a repentance whereby we forsake sin. (Comp. Revelation 2:5; Revelation 3:2.)
