Revelation 3:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. ”

• Revelation 3:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  So then because thou art lukewarm ... I will spue thee out of my mouth - Referring, perhaps, to the well-known fact that tepid water tends to produce sickness at the stomach, and an inclination t...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Revelation 2:1 to Revelation 3:22 . The Letters to the Seven Churches. These letters are addressed to individual churches, but their messages are intended for the Church as a whole. In every let...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  lukewarm. Greek. chliaros. Only here. will . am about to. spue. Greek. emeo. Only here. Occurs: Isaiah 19:14 (Septuagint)

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• Revelation 3:16 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2501 EPISTLE TO LAODICEA Revelation 3:14-16 . Unto the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the cr...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou art lukewarm - Irresolute and undecided. I will spue thee out of my mouth - He alludes her...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I will spue thee out of my mouth.— The allegory is continued, for lukewarm things, as water, provoke to vomit, according to the observation and prescription of the ancient physicians. See Celsus d...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Neither cold nor hot. So A, Vulgate; but 'Aleph (') B C, Syriac, Coptic, transpose, 'hot nor col...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Epistles to the Seven Churches (concluded) 1-6. To the Church in Sardis Christ speaks as He who gives the spirit and looks for spiritual life. There is no praise for this Church. Its life is w...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Neither cold nor hot. — The “heat” here is the glowing, fervent zeal and devotion which is commended and commanded elsewhere ( Romans 12:11 ). It is not, however, the self-conscious, galvanised ear...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “I Stand at the Door and Knock” Revelation 3:14-22 It is better to be cold than lukewarm, for in the latter case all that God's love can do for the soul has only produced a moderate result, whi...

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• Revelation 3:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The letter to the Church in Sardis covers the period of the Reformation. The Church was addressed as "dead." Yet there were things remaining which were not dead, but "ready to die." The address is la...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (15) I know thy works, that thou art n...

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• Revelation 3:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot ,.... A lukewarm professor is one that serves God and mammon; that halts between two opinions, and knows not what religion is best, and ca...

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• Revelation 3:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Ver. 16. I will spue thee out ] I will please myself in thy just punishment. Ah (saith God, as one r...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write Laodicea lay south of Philadelphia in the way to return to Ephesus: for the seven churches lay in a kind of circular form, so that the natural...

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• Revelation 3:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The Assembly at Sardis (vv. 1-6) The message to the assembly at Sardis has a very different character, for instead of being a development from Thyatira, it is rather a revulsion from it. Sardis...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Church in Laodicea. A. D.  95.       14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans writ...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Neither cold nor hot; partly good, partly bad, having something of profession, nothing of the life and power of religion; contenting thyself that thou art not a Jew, nor a pagan; not a superstitiou...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold not hot. I would you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.' Laodicea's water supply...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 3:14 . Laodiceans .—The city of Laodicea was situated on the banks of the Lycus, near Hierapolis and Colossæ. Archippus was possibly the angel of this Ch...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Epistle the fifth. Revelation 3:1 . Sardis, once a flourishing city, the residence of ancient kings, now a miserable village, having but few christians. This is not the Sardis, capital of Lydia...

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• Revelation 3:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Laodiceans. Laodicea--the self-complacent Church Laodicea is the type of a self-complacent Church. Underneath the condemnation of luke-warmness there is a yet more heart-searching lesson. L...

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• Revelation 3:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Revelation 3:1-66 The epistle to the Church at Sardis. This Church is one of the two which receives unmixed reproof. Smyrna and Philadelphia receive no blame; Sardis and Laodic...

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• Revelation 3:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The letter to the congregation at Laodicea:

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• Revelation 3:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 14:19 ; Jeremiah 15:1-4 ; Revelation 2:5 ; Zechariah 11:8 ; Zechariah 11:9

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• Revelation 3:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Churches at Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea Revelation 3:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We present some of the outstanding things written to the Church at Sardis. This is the fifth Church in t...

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• Revelation 3:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  So because thou art lukewarm — The effect of lukewarm water is well known. I am about to spue thee out of my mouth — I will utterly cast thee from me; that is, unless thou repent.

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