Revelation 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
KJV
οὕτως, ὅτι χλιαρὸς εἶ καὶ οὔτε ζεστὸς οὔτε ψυχρός, μέλλω σε ἐμέσαι ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου.
Greek NT
sed quia tepidus es, et nec frigidus, nec calidus, incipiam te evomere ex ore meo :
Vulgate
So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
ASV
But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζεστός
zestos
adjective · 3×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
οὔτε
oute
conjunction · 94×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
στόμα
stoma
noun · 78×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
χλιαρός
chliaros
adjective · 1×
ψυχρός
psuchros
adjective · 4×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐμέω
emeo
verb · 1×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: οὔτε | WH/Treg/NIV: οὔτε | RP: οὐ
- οὔτε — SBLGNT
- οὔτε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὐ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 24.—How We Must Understand that Breathing of God by Which “The First Man Was Made a Living Soul,” And that Also by Which the Lord Conveyed His Spirit to His Disciples When He Said, “Receive Ye the Holy Ghost.” Some have hastily supposed from the words, “God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul,624624 Gen. ii. 7.” that a soul was…
As there is no true religion where there is nothing else but affection, so there is no true religion where there is no religious affection. He who has no religious affection is in a state of spiritual death, and is wholly destitute of the powerful, quickening, saving influences of the Spirit of God upon his heart.
Let me therefore exhort you to come to a determination: do not rest in being almost a Christian. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Prove your own selves. If upon examination you find that you are only almost, and not altogether Christians, do not rest until God has converted your souls.
Cross-references
- Acts 1:2 — Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
- Jer 14:19 — Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behol
- Jer 15:1 — Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
- Lev 18:28 — That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
- Prov 1:23 — Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
- Rev 2:5 — 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.
- Zech 11:8 — Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.