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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Consider how far 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. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 and came to life again. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I know your afflictions and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know about 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] | 10Do 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, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor's crown. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I know where you live--where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city--where Satan lives. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 bronze. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22So 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. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I 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. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now 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, |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25except to hold on to what you have until I come.' |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations-- |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27that one 'will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery' --just as I have received authority from my Father. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28I will also give that one the morning star. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. |
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