(A)“I know your works, your labor, your [a]patience, and that you cannot [b]bear those who are evil. And (B)you have tested those (C)who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

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  1. Revelation 2:2 perseverance
  2. Revelation 2:2 endure

Love for God and One Another

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but (A)test the spirits, whether they are of God; because (B)many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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Destructive Doctrines

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be (A)false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction [a]does not slumber.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:3 M will not

15 (A)“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

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(A)“I know your works. See, I have set before you (B)an open door, [a]and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

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  1. Revelation 3:8 NU, M which no one can shut

The Dead Church

“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.

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  1. Revelation 3:1 Or messenger

21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 (A)Who is a liar but he who denies that (B)Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

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13 For such (A)are false apostles, (B)deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into (C)an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, (D)whose end will be according to their works.

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19 (A)“I know your works, love, [a]service, faith, and your [b]patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 20 Nevertheless I have [c]a few things against you, because you allow [d]that woman (B)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, [e]to teach and seduce My servants (C)to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I gave her time (D)to [f]repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.

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  1. Revelation 2:19 NU, M faith, service
  2. Revelation 2:19 perseverance
  3. Revelation 2:20 NU, M against you that you tolerate
  4. Revelation 2:20 M your wife Jezebel
  5. Revelation 2:20 NU, M and teaches and seduces
  6. Revelation 2:21 NU, M repent, and she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.

But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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10 For (A)God is not unjust to forget (B)your work and [a]labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have (C)ministered to the saints, and do minister.

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  1. Hebrews 6:10 NU omits labor of

19 Nevertheless (A)the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord (B)knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of [a]Christ depart from iniquity.”

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  1. 2 Timothy 2:19 NU, M the Lord

14 that we should no longer be (A)children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of (B)deceitful plotting,

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(A)which is not another; but there are some (B)who trouble you and want to (C)pervert[a] the gospel of Christ.

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  1. Galatians 1:7 distort

For (A)the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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13 “I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, (B)to eat things sacrificed to idols, (C)and to commit sexual immorality. 15 Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, [a]which thing I hate.

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  1. Revelation 2:15 NU, M likewise.

“I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are (A)rich); and I know the blasphemy of (B)those who say they are Jews and are not, (C)but are a [a]synagogue of Satan.

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  1. Revelation 2:9 congregation

remembering without ceasing (A)your work of faith, (B)labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

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23 And (A)then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; (B)depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

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