Revelation 2:18-29

English Standard Version

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, ^(A)who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

¹⁹^(B)“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ²⁰But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(C)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(D)to practice sexual immorality and ^(E)to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹I gave her time to repent, but ^(F)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²²Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, ²³and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he ^(G)who searches mind and heart, and ^(H)I will give to each of you according to your works. ²⁴But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call ^(I)the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I ^(J)do not lay on you any other burden. ²⁵Only hold fast ^(K)what you have until I come. ²⁶^(L)The one who conquers and who keeps my works ^(M)until the end, ^(N)to him I will give authority over the nations, ²⁷and ^(O)he will ^(P)rule^[a] them with a rod of iron, ^(Q)as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. ²⁸And I will give him ^(R)the morning star. ²⁹^(S)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’