Chapter 3
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3:1 To the angel messenger of the church in Sardis write: • These things says the One who possesses the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works that seem to show that you are alive, and yet you are dead. 2 Watch vigilantly, and establish what remains, for it is about to die. Indeed, I have found your works incomplete inside the presence of My God. 3 Bring to mind what you have received and heard, therefore – and guard it and change your minds. If not, you shall watch [all you want] but I will come as a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. 4 But you have a few names in Sardis who have not stained their garments, and they will walk with Me in white [j) because they are of great value to Me. • 5 The one who is presently and actively overcoming will be enclothed in white garments. I will not erase his name from the scroll of life, but I will speak his name in the presence of My Father and before His angels. 6 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 7 To the angel messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: • These things says the One who is Devoted and True, who possesses the key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. 8 I know your works. • Look and see, I have set before you an open door which no one is able to shut, because you have a little power; you have kept, watched over, and guarded My word and have not spoken against My name. 9 Look and see, I give you those who are out from the synagogue of Satan, those who claim to be Judeans, though they are not Judeans, for they lie [see g]. Look and see, I will cause them to come and to worship before your feet. They will know that I have loved you. • 10 Because you have kept the word of My steadfastness, I also will keep, guard, and watch over you out from the hour of trial about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to try those who dwell upon the earth. 11 I come quickly. Hold tightly to what you have so that no one takes your crown. • 12 I will make the one who is presently and actively overcoming to be a pillar inside of the temple of My God, and he shall not go out anymore. And I will write upon him, immediately and ongoing, the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, continuously and actively stepping forth out from heaven, from My God, and I will write upon him My new name. 13 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 14 And to the angel messenger of the church in Laodicea write: • These things says the ‘Let it be so, it is so,’ the faithful and true Witness, the beginning and source of the creation of God. • 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish you would be cold or hot. 16 Because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of My mouth. 17 For you say, “I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. • 18 I take counsel together with you to buy from Me gold that has been refined out from fire, that you might be rich; and white garments, so that you might be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness might not be made visible to all; and eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you might see. 19 Those whom I love, I discipline and instruct. Be eager, then, and change the way you think. • 20 Look and see, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone should hear My voice and open the door, I will go in to him, and I will dine with him and he with Me [k]. • 21 To the one who is presently and actively overcoming, I will give him, immediately and ongoing, to sit with Me inside of My throne, just exactly as I also overcame and sat down with My Father inside of His throne [l]. 22 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. |
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