Revelation 2:3 Cross References - Worsley

³ and for my name's sake thou hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

²¹ And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was passing by, coming out of the country, to carry his cross:

¹⁵ But that on the good ground, are those who having heard the word, retain it in a good and honest heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.

²⁷ And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and follow me, cannot be my disciple.

¹ And He spake also a parable to them, to shew that men ought always to pray, and not to faint:

¹⁹ In your patience therefore possess your souls.

²¹ But all these things will they do unto you, on my account, because they know not Him that sent me.

⁷ to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life:

³ And not only so, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, ⁴ and patience experience,

²⁵ but if we hope for what we see not, then we wait for it with patience.

¹² Rejoicing in hope, patient under affliction, persevering in prayer,

⁴ For whatever things were written heretofore, were written for our instruction; that we through patience and the consolation of the scriptures might have hope. ⁵ And may the God of patience and consolation grant you the like mutual affection to each other, according to the example of Christ Jesus:

¹² Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who are labouring in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, who hath laboured much in the Lord.

⁷ covereth all faults, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

¹⁶ have set themselves to minister to the saints) that you also would be subservient to such, and to every one that worketh and laboureth with us.

¹ Therefore having received this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we are not disheartened:

¹⁶ For which cause we are not disheartened: but though our outward man decayeth, yet the inward man is renewed daily.

⁹ Wherefore we are also ambitious, whether dwelling in the body, or out of it, to be well-pleasing to Him.

⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

¹⁵ Not boasting of things beyond our limits in other men's labors; but having hope that, when your faith is increased, we shall be abundantly enlarged by you according to our line,

²³ so am I: are they ministers of Christ? (if I may speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes far exceeding, in prisons more frequently, and often even in deaths.

² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

⁹ And let us not be weary in doing good: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

¹⁶ exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

³ And I entreat thee likewise, my faithful collegue, to assist them, for they laboured with me in the gospel, and Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

¹¹ strengthened with all might according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

³ Incessantly remembering your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father:

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

¹² And we entreat you, brethren, to respect those that labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and instruct you;

⁵ And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

⁸ neither did we eat any one's bread for nothing; but with labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you.

¹³ But be not you, my brethren, discouraged from well-doing. And if any obey not our order,

¹⁰ For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹⁷ Let the elders, who preside well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially those that labour in preaching and teaching.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewn to his name, by having ministred to the saints, and yet ministring.

¹² that ye would not be sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

¹⁵ And thus waiting patiently he obtained the promise.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.

¹ Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,

³ Wherefore consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, that ye may not give out, fainting in your minds: ⁴ for ye have not resisted unto blood in striving against sin. ⁵ Have ye forgotten the exhortation, which speaketh to you as to sons, saying, "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor saint when rebuked by Him?

¹³ Let us then go out unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach: for we have here no continuing city,

³ knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience; ⁴ but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.

⁷ Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the latter rain. ⁸ Be ye also patient, establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is near. ⁹ Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door. ¹⁰ Take for an example of enduring evil and of long-suffering the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold, we account those happy, that are patient. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

⁶ and to fortitude knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience piety;

⁹ I John, who am also your brother, and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is to come upon the whole world, to try those that dwell upon the earth.