Revelation 2:3

The Letter To The Church In Ephesus

² "I know your works and your toil, and your patience, and that you cannot bear evil men; and you tried those who call themselves apostles, and are not, and found them false; ³  and you have patience, and did bear for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have it against you, that you left your first love.

For My Name

For My Sake

Bore Up

John 15:21

But all these things will they do to you for My name's sake; because they know not Him Who sent Me.

Mark 15:21

And they impress one Simon, a Cyrenian, who was passing by, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His cross.

Luke 8:15

"And that in the good ground, these are such as, in a good and honest heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bear fruit with patience.

Luke 14:27

And whosoever does not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.

Luke 18:1

And He spake a parable to them, to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Luke 21:19

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Romans 2:7

to those who, by patience in well-doing, are seeking for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;

Romans 5:3-4

And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations; knowing that tribulation works out patience;

Romans 8:25

But, if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; persevering in prayer;

Romans 15:4-5

For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope.

Romans 16:12

Salute Triphaena and Triphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:7

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that ye also submit yourselves to such, and to every one who is laboring with us and toiling.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not;

2 Corinthians 4:16

Wherefore, we faint not; but even if our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Wherefore, we also make it our aim??hether being at home or being from home??o be well-pleasing to Him.

2 Corinthians 6:5

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings;

2 Corinthians 10:15

not glorying beyond our measure in other men's labors; but, having hope that, as your faith increases, we shall be enlarged among you according to our limit to further abundance,

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often;

Galatians 6:2

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:9

And, in doing what is noble, let us not grow weary; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Philippians 2:16

holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.

Philippians 4:3

Yea, I request you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, who, indeed, labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and my remaining fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

Colossians 1:11

strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering, without ceasing, your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:12

And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

2 Thessalonians 3:5

And the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you;

2 Thessalonians 3:13

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, Who is Savior of all men, especially of believers.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let elders who preside well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in word and teaching.

Hebrews 6:10

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed toward His name, in having ministered to the saints, and still ministering.

Hebrews 6:12

that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises.

Hebrews 6:15

And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

For ye have need of patience, that, after having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;

Hebrews 12:3-5

For consider Him Who hath endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye become weary, fainting in your souls.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore, let us go forth to Him without the camp, bearing His reproach;

James 1:3-4

knowing that the proving of your faith establishes patience.

James 5:7-11

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

2 Peter 1:6

and in knowledge, continence; and in continence, patience; and in patience, godliness;

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother, and fellow-sharer in the tribulation, and kingdom, and patience in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

Revelation 3:10

Because you kept the word of My patience. I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to try those who dwell upon the earth.