Revelation 2:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Remember

Revelation 3:3

2 Peter 1:12

Thou art

Galatians 5:4

Jude 1:24

And repent

Acts 17:30

And do

Revelation 2:19

Revelation 3:2

Luke 1:17

Else

Luke 20:16

General references

Matthew 25:7

1 Corinthians 11:31

Bible References

Remember

Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.

I shall, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the Truth that you now hold.

Thou art

You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

To him who is able to guard you from falling, and to bring you into his glorious presence, blameless and rejoicing-

And repent

Therefore repent, or else, I will come quickly and contend with such men with words that will cut like a sword.

Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.

But those who were left of mankind, who had not perished through these Curses, did not repent and turn away from what their own hands had made; they would not abandon the worship of 'demons, and of idols made of gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk';

and men were scorched by the intense heat. They blasphemed the Name of God who controlled these Curses, yet they did not repent and give him praise.

True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,

And do

I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.

Be on the watch, and strengthen what still survives, though once it was all but dead; for I have not found your life perfect in the eyes of my God.

He shall go before him in the spirit and with the power of Elijah, 'to reconcile fathers to their children' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and so make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

Else

Therefore repent, or else, I will come quickly and contend with such men with words that will cut like a sword.

Therefore remember what you have received and heard, and lay it to heart and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I shall come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I am coming to you.

"Miserable wretches!" they exclaimed, "he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times."

But, should he be a bad servant, and say to himself 'My master is a long time in coming,'

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death, and he will let the vineyard to others.

But should that servant say to himself 'My master is a long time coming,' and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

He will come and put those tenants to death, and will let the vineyard to others." "Heaven forbid!" they exclaimed when they heard it.

General references

Then all the bridesmaids awoke and trimmed their lamps.

But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.