^2 (A)“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but ^(B)have tested those ^(C)who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. ³ I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up ^(D)for my name's sake, and you ^(E)have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have abandoned ^(F)the love you had at first.

¹³ “‘I know where you dwell, ^(A)where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not ^(B)deny my faith^[a] even in the days of Antipas ^(C)my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of ^(D)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might ^(E)eat food sacrificed to idols and ^(F)practice sexual immorality.

^19 (A)“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(B)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(C)to practice sexual immorality and ^(D)to eat food sacrificed to idols.