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Revelation 2:1
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 walks
among the seven golden lampstands;
Revelation 2:2
I know your deeds, your hard work, and your perseverance. I know that you
cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be
apostles but are not, and have found them false:
Revelation 2:3
You have preserved and have endured hardships for my name, have not grown weary.
Revelation 2:4
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.
Revelation 2:5
Remember the height from which you have fallen ! Repent, and do the things you
did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand
from its place.
Revelation 2:6
But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate.
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him
who overcomes I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is
in the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:8
To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, came to life
again;
Revelation 2:9
I know your afflictions and poverty - yet you are rich ! I know the slander of
those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 2:10
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put
some of you in prison to test you, you will suffer persecution for ten
days. Be faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the
crown of life.
Revelation 2:11
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who
overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.
Revelation 2:12
To the angel of the church in Pergamum write;
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.
Revelation 2:13
I know where you live - where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my
name. You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my
faithful witness, who was put to death in your city - where Satan lives.
Revelation 2:14
Nevertheless I have a few things against you: You have people who hold to the
teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by
eating food sacrificed to idols, and by committing sexual immorality.
Revelation 2:15
Likewise you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Revelation 2:16
Repent therefore ! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against
them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him
who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a
white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.
Revelation 2:18
To the angel of the church in Thyatira write;
These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire, and
whose feet are like burnished brass.
Revelation 2:19
I know your deeds, your love and faith, and your service and perseverance, and
that you are now doing more than you did at first.
Revelation 2:20
Nevertheless I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls
herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual
immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 2:21
I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
Revelation 2:22
So, I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit
adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
Revelation 2:23
I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he
who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to
your deeds.
Revelation 2:24
Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her
teaching, and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets ( I will not
impose any other burden on you):
Revelation 2:25
Only hold on to what you have until I come.
Revelation 2:26
To him who overcomes, and does my will to the end, I will give authority over
the nations:
Revelation 2:27
He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like
pottery: just as I have received authority from my Father.
Revelation 2:28
I will also give him the morning star.
Revelation 2:29
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Revelation 3:1
To the angel of the church in Sardis write;
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven
stars.
I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
Revelation 3:2
Wake up ! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your
deeds complete in the sight of my God.
Revelation 3:3
Remember, therefore what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But
if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at
what time I will come to you.
Revelation 3:4
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will
walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out
his name from the book of life, but I will acknowledge his name
before my Father and his angels.
Revelation 3:6
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Revelation 3:7
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write;
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David.
What he opens no one can shut; and what he shuts, and no one can open.
Revelation 3:8
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can
shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word, and have
not denied my name.
Revelation 3:9
I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though
they are not, but are liars - I will make them to come and fall down at your
feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
Revelation 3:10
Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from
the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who
live on the earth.
Revelation 3:11
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Revelation 3:12
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again
will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the
city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from
my God; and I will also write on him my new name.
Revelation 3:13
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Revelation 3:14
To the angel of the church of the Laodicea write;
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of
God's creation.
Revelation 3:15
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were
either one or the other !
Revelation 3:16
So, because you are lukewarm - and neither cold nor hot - I am about to spit
you out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:17
You say, ' I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But
you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich;
and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve
to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.
Revelation 3:20
Here I am ! I stand at the door, and knock. If any one hears my voice, and opens
the door, I will come in eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:21
To him who overcomes, I will also give the right to sit with me on my throne,
just as I overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:22
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
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The Church at Ephesus
