¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^(A)you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it ^(B)you^[a] shall surely ^(C)die.”

²⁴ So ^(A)He drove out the man; and He placed ^(B)cherubim ^(C)at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of ^(D)life.

²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

The Dead Church

3 “And to the ^[a]angel of the church in Sardis write,

‘These things says He who ^(A)has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.