¹³ I can assure you that he prays hard for you and also for the believers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

2 I want you to know how much I have agonized for you and for the church at Laodicea, and for many other believers who have never met me personally.

The Message to the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴ “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Laodicea. This is the message from the one who is the Amen—the faithful and true witness, the beginning^[a] of God’s new creation:

¹¹ It said, “Write in a book^[a] everything you see, and send it to the seven churches in the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

¹⁵ Please give my greetings to our brothers and sisters^[a] at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

¹⁶ After you have read this letter, pass it on to the church at Laodicea so they can read it, too. And you should read the letter I wrote to them.

³ For I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will.

² I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.