Revelation:2-3

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* To the angel of the Church in Ephesus , write . These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in his right hand , and who walks among the seven golden candlesticks . * I know your works and your toil and stedfastness , and that you cannot endure evil men , and that you tested those who called themselves apostles , though they are not , and how you found them false . * You are holding fast , and have borne up for my namess sake , and have not grown weary . * But I have this against you , that you have left your first love . * Remember whence you have fallen , and turn again , and do your first works . Otherwise I am coming to you and will remove your candlestick out of its place , unless you repent . * But this you have , that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans , which I hate . * He who has an ear , let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . To him that overcomes , to him will I give to eat from the tree of life which is in the garden of God . * And unto the angel of the Church in Smyrna , write . These are the words of the First and the Last , he who died and has returned to life . * I know your persecution and your poverty - but you are rich ! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews , when they are not , but are a synagogue of Satan . * Fear not what you are about to suffer ! Behold , the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison , that you may be tested , and you will have persecution for ten days . Be faithful even unto death , and I will give you the crown of life . * Let him who has ears , listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death . * And to the angel of the Church in Pergamum , write These are the words of Him who holds the sharp two-edged sword . * I know where you dwell , where the throne of Satan is ; and yet you are holding fast my name , and you have not denied my faith , even in the days of Antipas , my witness , my faithful one , who was slain among you , where Satan has his dwelling . * But I have a few things against you , because you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam , who taught Balak to put a stumbling - block before the sons of Israel , to eat food offered to idols , and to practise immorality . * So you have also some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans . * Repent ; if you do not I will very soon come to you , and will make war upon them with the sword of my mouth . * He who has ears , let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna , and I will give him a white stone , and upon the stone a new name written , which no man knows , but he that receives it . * And to the angel of the Church in Thyatira , write . These are the words of the Son of God , who has his eyes like a flame of fire , and his feet like burnished brass . * I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance ; I know that your last works are more than the first . * But I have this against you , that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel , who calls herself a prophetess , and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray , leading them to practise immorality , and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols . * I have given her time for repentance ; but she is determined not to turn from her immorality . * Behold , I will lay her on a sick bed , and bring great distress upon those who have committed adultery with her , unless they turn away from her works . * And moreover , her children will I kill with pestilence . And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches the hearts and souls of men . I will give to each of you according to his works . * But to the rest of you in Thyatira , those who do not hold his teaching , and who do not know the "deep things " of Satan (as they call them ), * I say that I am imposing upon you no fresh burden ; only hold fast what you have till I come . * To him that overcomes and perseveres in my works to the end , will I give authority over the nations . * And he shall shepherd them with a rod of iron , shattering them like earthen vessels (as I myself have received from my Father ), * and I will give him the Morning Star ." * Let him who has an ear , listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . * To the angel of the Church at Sardis , write . These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars . I know your works , that you have the name of being alive , but are really dead . * Be continually on the watch , and establish the things that remain , which were ready to die . For I have not found your works perfected before my God . * Call to mind , then , what you have received and heard , and hold to it , and repent . Unless you are on the watch , I will come as a thief , and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you . * Yet you have a few names in Sardis that have not defiled their garment ; and they shall walk with me in white , for they are worthy . * He who overcomes shall thus be clad in white raiment ; and I will in no wise blot out his name from the book of life , and I will own his name before my Father , and before his angels . * Let him who has an ear , listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . * Write also to the angel of the Church in Philadelphia . These things says He who is holy , he who is true , he who has the key of David , he who opens , and no one shall shut ; and who shuts , and no one opens . * I know your works . Lo , I have set before you an open door , which none can shut ; for though you have only a little strength , you have kept my word , and have not denied my name . * Behold , I am making those of the synagogue of Satan , those who say they are Jews , but are not , but are lying ; behold , I will make them to come and bow in reverence before your feet , and to know that I have loved you . * Because you have kept the word of my patience , I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth , to test those who dwell on the earth . * I am coming quickly . Hold fast what you have , that no one may take your crown . * He that overcomes , I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God ; and he shall go out from it nevermore . And I will write upon him the name of my God , and the name of the city of my God , the new Jerusalem , which is coming down from my God out of heaven , and my own new name . * He that has an ear , let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . * To the angel of the Church in Laodicea , write . These things says the Amen , the witness , faithful and true , the beginning of the creation of God . * I know your works , that you are neither hot nor cold . * Would that you were either cold or hot . So because you are lukewarm , and neither hot nor cold , I am about to spew you out of my mouth . * For you keep saying , "I am rich , and have become wealthy , and have need of nothing ," and do not know that you are the wretched one , and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked . * I advise you to buy of me gold refined by fire , that you may become rich ; and white raiment to clothe yourself , so that the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest ; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes , in order that you may see . * All whom I love I reprove and discipline ; therefore be full of zeal and repent . * Behold , I am standing at the door and knocking ! If any one listens to my voice , and opens the door , I will come to him , and sup with him , and he with me . * To him who overcomes , I will grant to sit down with me on my throne , as I myself have overcome and have taken my seat with my Father on his throne . * Let any one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches . * After this , in my vision , I saw a door opened in heaven ! And the first voice that I heard speaking with me was like a trumpet , saying , "Come up hither , and I will show you the things that must come to pass hereafter ."

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