⁵ Remember, then, from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

² Wake up and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God. ³ Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.^(A)

¹⁹ I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.^(A)

¹⁶ Repent, then. If not, I will come to you soon and wage war against them with the sword of my mouth.^(A)

A Plea for Repentance

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.^{[a](A) 22} Beware, I am throwing her on a bed, and those who commit adultery with her I am throwing into great distress, unless they repent of her doings,

¹⁹ “I know your works: your love, faith, service, and endurance. I know that your latest works are greater than the first.

²⁰ As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.^(A)

³⁰ While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,^{(A) 31} because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”^(B)

⁴³ There you shall remember your ways and all the deeds by which you have polluted yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.^(A)