Revelation 2:12-17 Christian Standard Bible

The Letter to Pergamum

¹²“Write to the angel of the church in Pergamum: Thus says the one who has the sharp, double-edged sword: ^(A) ¹³I know^[a] where you live—where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding on to my name and did not deny your faith in me,^[b]^(B) even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness^(C) who was put to death among you, where Satan lives. ¹⁴But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam,^(D) who taught Balak to place a stumbling block^[c] in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols^(E) and to commit sexual immorality.^(F) ¹⁵In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.^[d] ¹⁶So repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly^(G) and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.^(H)

¹⁷“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna.^[e]^(I) I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name^(J) is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.

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Footnotes

2:13 Other mss add your works and
2:13 Or deny my faith
2:14 Or to place a trap
2:15 Other mss add which I hate
2:17 Other mss add to eat

Cross references

2:12 : Is 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rv 1:16; 2:16; 19:15
2:13 : 1Tm 5:8
2:13 : Ac 22:20
2:14 : 2Pt 2:15
2:14 : Ac 15:29; 1Co 8:10; 10:19
2:14 : Nm 25:1; 31:16; 1Co 10:8
2:16 : Rv 22:7
2:16 : 2Th 2:8
2:17 : Ex 16:32–34
2:17 : Is 55:13; 56:5; 62:2

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