Revelation Chapter 2 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Revelation 2:3

and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary.
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BBE Revelation 2:3

And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.
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DARBY Revelation 2:3

and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:
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KJV Revelation 2:3

And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
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WBT Revelation 2:3


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WEB Revelation 2:3

You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have{TR adds "have labored and"} not grown weary.
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YLT Revelation 2:3

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.
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Revelation 2 : 3 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - The text followed in the Authorized Version is here very corrupt; we must read with the Revised Version, And thou hast patience (as in ver. 2), and didst bear for my Name's sake, and hast not grown weary. The last verb (κεκοπίακες) is closely akin to toil (κόπος) in ver 2. The seeming contradiction between "I know thy toil" and "thou hast not toiled" has caused confusion in the text. Yet οὐ κεκοπίακες does not mean "thou hast not toiled," but "thou hast not wearied of toil." It is all the more probable that this play of words is intentional, because "bear" (βαστάζειν) is used in two different senses in ver. 2 and ver. 3: "canst not tolerate evil men," and "didst endure suffering" (comp. John 16:12). "So is patience set over the things of God that one can obey no precept, fulfil no work well pleasing to the Lord, if estranged from it. The good of it even they who live outside it honour with the name of highest virtue... . Grand testimony this is to it, in that it incites even the vain schools of the world unto praise and glory! Or is it rather an injury,' 'in that a thing Divine is bandied about among worldly sciences (Tertullian, 'De Pat.,' 1.).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) And hast borne.--This verse needs some change to bring it into harmony with the best MSS. It should stand, And hast (or, hadst) patience, and didst bear for My name's sake, and didst not weary. In this last word there is a recurrence to the word (kopos) translated labour or toil in Revelation 2:2. They had toiled on to very weariness without wearying of their toil (Galatians 6:9), just as they could not bear the evil and yet had borne reproaches for Christ's sake. "There is toil, and patience, and abhorrence of evil, and discernment, and again patience, and endurance, and unwearied exertion. What can be wanting here?" (Dr. Vaughan.)