Chapter 2
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2:1 To the angel messenger of the church in Ephesus write: • These things says the One holding fast the seven stars inside His right hand and walking inside the midst of the seven golden lampstands: [d] 2 I know your works and your labor and steadfastness, and that you are not able to bear with evil or those who are evil. You have put to the proof those claiming to be apostles but are not, and you have found them to be fake. 3 You possess steadfastness and have carried on through My name and have not grown weary. 4 But I have this concerning you, that you have allowed your first love to depart. 5 Bring to mind, therefore, the place from which you have fallen; change your mind and do the first works. If not, I am continuously and actively coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand out of its place, if you do not change your minds. 6 But this you possess, that you detest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also detest [e]. • 7 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. • To the one presently and actively overcoming, I will give him to eat, immediately and ongoing, out from the Tree of Life which is inside the paradise of God [f]. 8 To the angel messenger of the church in Smyrna write: • These things says the always first and the always final, who once was dead and is now alive, • 9 I know your travail and destitution (but you are rich) and the slander of those claiming themselves to be Judeans and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan [g]. 10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. You see, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison in an attempt to test you; and you will experience travail ten days. Be faithful as far as death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. • The one presently and actively overcoming shall not hurt others, that is, shall not act out from the second death. 12 To the angel messenger of the church in Pergamum write: • These things says the One speaking forth the eager two-edged sword. 13 I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and you hold fast My name and have not repudiated My faith, even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one who was killed beside you, in the place where Satan dwells. 14 But I have a few things concerning you; because you have some pushing the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to worship pornography and immorality. 15 You also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Change your minds, therefore. For if you do not, I am continuously and actively coming to you with speed and will contend with them inside of the sword of My mouth. 17 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. • The one presently and actively overcoming, I will give him the hidden manna, immediately and ongoing, and I will give him a white stone [h], and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows except the one who receives it. 18 To the angel messenger of the church in Thyatira write: • These things says the Son of God, the One whose eyes resemble a flame of fire and whose feet are like fine bronze. 19 I know your works and love and faith, your service and steadfastness, and your recent works, greater than the first. 20 But I have this against you, that you permit the woman Jezebel, the one calling herself a prophetess, and who is teaching and is misleading my servants to worship pornographic idols of immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given her time to change her mind, but she is not willing to change her mind out of her immoral worship. 22 Look and see, I will cast her into a bed, and those committing adultery with her into great pressures, if they will not change their minds out of her deeds. 23 And her children I will kill inside of death; and all the churches will know that I am the One searching the emotions and hearts; and I will give to each of you, immediately and ongoing, according to your works. 24 More than that, I say to the rest of those in Thyatira, those who do not hold to this teaching, those who have not known the “profound depths of Satan,” as they say; I will not cast upon you any other burden. 25 But hold fast what you have until I might come. 26 • The one presently and actively overcoming and keeping watch until the completion of My works, I will give him, immediately and ongoing, authority upon the peoples, 27 and he will shepherd them inside of a staff of iron, broken as an earthen vessel; in just the same way that I also have received from My Father , 28 and I will give him the morning star. 29 The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. |
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