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, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters -- Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant.

And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.

And ye have remembered your ways that are evil, And your doings that are not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

Thou art

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

And repent

'Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory.

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

And do

I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last are more than the first.

become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, 'A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'

'Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.

As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

And sweet to Jehovah hath been the present of Judah and Jerusalem, As in days of old, and as in former years.

And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

Else

'Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

They say to him, 'Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

'And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

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

'And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, 'Let it not be!'

General references

And he putteth the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over-against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward,

'Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps,

for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,