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

2 Peter 1:12

Thou art

And repent

Acts 17:30

And do

Else

Luke 20:16

General references

Exodus 40:24

Matthew 25:7

1 Corinthians 11:31

Bible References

Remember

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the present truth.

Thou art

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

O Israel, return to the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity.

Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; ye have fallen from grace.

Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

And repent

Repent; or else I will come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

And do

I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first:

Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Else

Repent; or else I will come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, who will render him the fruits in their seasons.

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming;

What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the men-servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken?

He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, may that never be.

General references

And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.