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Revelation 2:3

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

KJV

καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἔχεις, καὶ ἐβάστασας διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου, καὶ οὐ κεκοπίακες.

Greek NT

et patientiam habes, et sustinuisti propter nomen meum, et non defecisti.

Vulgate

and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary.

ASV

And thou hast patience and hast endured for my name and hast not fainted.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βαστάζω
bastazo
verb · 27×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κοπιάω
kopiao
verb · 22×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
o
article · 19778×
ὄνομα
onoma
noun · 228×
ὑπομονή
upomone
noun · 32×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: οὐ κεκοπίακες | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐ κεκοπίακες | RP: οὐκ ἐκοπίασας
  • οὐ κεκοπίακεςSBLGNT
  • οὐ κεκοπίακεςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οὐκ ἐκοπίασαςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 13:7 — Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • 1John 2:14 — I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overc
  • 1Thess 1:3 — Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
  • 1Thess 5:12 — And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
  • 1Tim 4:10 — For 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.
  • 2Cor 4:1 — Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
  • 2Cor 4:1 — Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
  • 2Cor 4:16 — For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
  • 2Cor 5:9 — Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
  • 2Cor 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
  • 2Cor 12:10 — Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
  • 2Pet 1:6 — And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
  • 2Thess 3:13 — But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
  • 2Thess 3:13 — But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
  • 3John 1:7 — Because that for his name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
  • Col 1:11 — Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
  • Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • Gal 6:9 — And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
  • Gal 6:9 — And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
  • Heb 6:10 — For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
  • Heb 6:12 — That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
  • Heb 6:15 — And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Heb 10:36 — For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
  • Heb 12:1 — Wherefore 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 race that is
  • Heb 12:3 — For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • Heb 12:3 — For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • Isa 40:31 — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
  • Jas 1:3 — Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  • Jas 5:7 — Be 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 latter ra
  • John 15:21 — But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
  • Luke 8:15 — But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
  • Luke 14:27 — And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
  • Luke 18:1 — And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
  • Luke 19:26 — For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
  • Luke 21:17 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
  • Mark 10:29 — And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
  • Matt 5:11 — Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:22 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
  • Prov 24:10 — If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
  • Ps 37:7 — Rest 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.