² I know your deeds,^(A) your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested^(B) those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.^(C)

⁹ I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich!^(A) I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not,^(B) but are a synagogue of Satan.^(C)

¹⁰ Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you^(A) from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world^(B) to test^(C) the inhabitants of the earth.^(D)