Message to Pergamum

¹² “And to the angel of the church in ^(A)Pergamum write:

The One who has ^(B)the sharp two-edged sword says this:

¹³ ‘I know where you dwell, where ^(C)Satan’s throne is; and you hold firmly to My name, and did not deny ^(D)My faith even in the days of Antipas, My ^(E)witness, My ^(F)faithful one, who was killed among you, ^(G)where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ But ^(H)I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the ^(I)teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a ^[a]stumbling block before the sons of Israel, ^(J)to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. ¹⁵ So you too, have some who in the same way hold to the teaching of the ^(K)Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Therefore ^(L)repent; or else ^(M)I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with ^(N)the sword of My mouth. ^17 (O)The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(P)To the one who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden ^(Q)manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a ^(R)new name written on the stone ^(S)which no one knows except the one who receives it.’

¹⁴ But ^[a]a ^(A)natural person ^(B)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(C)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But the one who is ^(D)spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is ^[b]discerned by no one. ¹⁶ For ^(E)who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But ^(F)we have the mind of Christ.

^48 (A)I am the bread of life. ^49 (B)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. ⁵⁰ This is the bread that ^(C)comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat from it and ^(D)not die. ^51 (E)I am the living bread that ^(F)came down out of heaven; if anyone eats from this bread, ^(G)he will live forever; and the bread which I will give ^(H)for the life of the world also is ^(I)My flesh.”