Revelation 2:2-3

To the Church in Ephesus

² _g "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but _h have tested those _i who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. ³ I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up _j for my name's sake, and you _k have not grown weary.

1. Cross References
   Revelation 2:19
   'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
   Revelation 3:1
   And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
   Revelation 3:8
   'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
   Revelation 3:15
   'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!
   
2. Cross References
   1 John 4:1
   Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 11:13
   For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
   
4. Cross References
   John 15:21
   But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
   
5. Cross References
   Hebrews 12:3
   Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
   Hebrews 12:5
   And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.