Bible Verses About Ephesus

wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all,

for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

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

`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

`The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

And these things having said, having bowed his knees, with them all, he did pray,

and there came a great weeping to all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said--that they are about no more to see his face; and they were accompanying him to the ship.

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden:

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place--if thou mayest not reform;

but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming--I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.