Bible Verses About Ephesus

Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock;

and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

I coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.

Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all.

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the ship.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false;

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

But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.

Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.