| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Write to the angel of the church in Ephesus: "The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand and who walks among the seven gold lampstands says: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You also possess endurance and have tolerated many things because of My name and have not grown weary. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place--unless you repent. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Yet you do have this: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in God's paradise. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: "The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I know your affliction 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. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Don't be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Write to the angel of the church in Pergamum: "The One who has the sharp, double-edged sword says: |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I know where you live--where Satan's throne is! And you are holding on to My name and did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan lives. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Write to the angel of the church in Thyatira: "The Son of God, the One whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine bronze, says: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I know your works--your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives My slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Look! I will throw her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her practices. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I will kill her children with the plague. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven't known the deep things of Satan--as they say--I do not put any other burden on you. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But hold on to what you have until I come. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The one who is victorious and keeps My works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations-- |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and he will shepherd them with an iron scepter; he will shatter them like pottery -- just as I have received this from My Father. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I will also give him the morning star. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. |
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