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15 I know all that you do, and I know that you are neither frozen in apathy nor fervent with passion. How I wish you were either one or the other!

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16 But because you are neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I am about to spit you from my mouth.

The Passion Translation: New Testament

This is not a complete rejection, for Jesus gives them a call to repent and return to a place of being passionate and zealous for God. The Aramaic uses an idiom that can mean “I am about to reprimand you (lit. “give you of my mouth”).”