Revelation 2:20-3:17

English Standard Version

²⁰But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(B)to practice sexual immorality and ^(C)to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹I gave her time to repent, but ^(D)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²²Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, ²³and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he ^(E)who searches mind and heart, and ^(F)I will give to each of you according to your works. ²⁴But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call ^(G)the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I ^(H)do not lay on you any other burden. ²⁵Only hold fast ^(I)what you have until I come. ²⁶^(J)The one who conquers and who keeps my works ^(K)until the end, ^(L)to him I will give authority over the nations, ²⁷and ^(M)he will ^(N)rule^[a] them with a rod of iron, ^(O)as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. ²⁸And I will give him ^(P)the morning star. ²⁹^(Q)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

To the Church in Sardis

3 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him ^(R)who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

“‘I know your works. You have the reputation ^(S)of being alive, ^(T)but you are dead. ²Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works ^(U)complete in the sight of my God. ³^(V)Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, ^(W)I will come ^(X)like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. ⁴Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not ^(Y)soiled their garments, and they will walk with me ^(Z)in white, for they are ^(AA)worthy. ⁵^(AB)The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never ^(AC)blot his name out of ^(AD)the book of life. ^(AE)I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶^(AF)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

To the Church in Philadelphia

⁷“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of ^(AG)the holy one, ^(AH)the true one, ^(AI)who has the key of David, ^(AJ)who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

⁸“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you ^(AK)an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. ⁹Behold, I will make those of ^(AL)the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, ^(AM)I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that ^(AN)I have loved you. ¹⁰^(AO)Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try ^(AP)those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹^(AQ)I am coming soon. ^(AR)Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize ^(AS)your crown. ¹²^(AT)The one who conquers, I will make him ^(AU)a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him ^(AV)the name of my God, and ^(AW)the name of the city of my God, ^(AX)the new Jerusalem, ^(AY)which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own ^(AZ)new name. ¹³^(BA)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the ^(BB)Amen, ^(BC)the faithful and true witness, ^(BD)the beginning of God's creation.

¹⁵“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. ^(BE)Would that you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷^(BF)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, ^(BG)blind, and naked.