These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand^(B) and walks among the seven golden lampstands.^{(C) 2} I know your deeds,^(D) your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested^(E) those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.^{(F) 3} You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name,^(G) and have not grown weary.

⁴ Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.^{(H) 5} Consider how far you have fallen! Repent^(I) and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand^(J) from its place. ⁶ But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans,^(K) which I also hate.

⁷ Whoever has ears, let them hear^(L) what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious,^(M) I will give the right to eat from the tree of life,^(N) which is in the paradise^(O) of God.

These are the words of the Son of God,^(B) whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.^{(C) 19} I know your deeds,^(D) your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

²⁰ Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel,^(E) who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.^{(F) 21} I have given her time^(G) to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.^{(H) 22} So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery^(I) with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. ²³ I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds,^(J) and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.^(K)

²⁴ Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you,^{(L) 25} except to hold on to what you have^(M) until I come.’^(N)

²⁶ To the one who is victorious^(O) and does my will to the end,^(P) I will give authority over the nations^(Q)— ²⁷ that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter^(R) and will dash them to pieces like pottery’^[a](S)—just as I have received authority from my Father. ²⁸ I will also give that one the morning star.^{(T) 29} Whoever has ears, let them hear^(U) what the Spirit says to the churches.