The Letter to the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

“This is what the Son of God says, the one who has his eyes like a fiery flame and his feet like fine bronze: ¹⁹ ‘I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance—and your last works are greater than the first. ²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹ And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality. ²² Behold, I am throwing her into a sickbed and those who committed adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent from her deeds. ²³ And I will kill her children with deadly disease, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. ²⁴ But I say to you, to the rest who are in Thyatira, all those who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they say, I do not put upon you any other burden. ²⁵ Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come. ²⁶ And the one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and “he will shepherd them with an iron rod; he will break them in pieces like jars made of clay,”^{[a] 28} as I also have received from my Father, and I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’