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Revelation 3:16 KJV
Revelation · chapter 3 · verse 16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.Revelation 3:16 · King James Version
Revelation 3:16 in context
14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
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Key words (Strong's)
- lukewarmchliarostepid, lukewarm, metaph. of the condition of the soul wretchedly fluctuating between a…G5513 →
- coldpsychroscold, cool, of cool water, metaph., coldG5593 →
- spueemeōto vomit, vomit forth, throw upG1692 →
- hotzestosboiling hot, hot, metaph. of fervour of mind and zealG2200 →
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We now come to the last and worst of all the seven Asian churches, the reverse of the church of Philadelphia; for, as there was nothing reproved in that, here is nothing commended in this, and yet this was one of the seven golden candlesticks, for a corrupt church may still be a church. Here we have, as before, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-22