Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Revelation 2:3

“And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.”

Revelation 2:3 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Revelation 2:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Revelation 2. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

5 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.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Hebrews 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
  • Galatians 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
  • James 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and…
  • James 1:3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  • Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the ra…
  • Colossians 1:11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
  • John 15:21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
  • Hebrews 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Hebrews 6:12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  • Psalms 37:7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
  • 1 Timothy 4:10For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
  • Romans 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:13But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
  • Romans 5:3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

More to meet God in Revelation

Revelation 21:4Revelation 1:8Revelation 3:20Revelation 21:5Revelation 12:9Revelation 11:15Revelation 11:18Revelation 15:4Revelation 14:7Revelation 1:5Revelation 15:3Revelation 17:14Revelation 9:20Revelation 3:7

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.