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

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

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

These are the words of him who is the First and the Last,^(CF) who died and came to life again.^{(CG) 9} I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich!^(CH) I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not,^(CI) but are a synagogue of Satan.^{(CJ) 10} Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you,^(CK) and you will suffer persecution for ten days.^(CL) Be faithful,^(CM) even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.^(CN)

¹¹ Whoever has ears, let them hear^(CO) what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.^(CP)

These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.^{(CR) 13} I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me,^(CS) not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness,^(CT) who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.^(CU)

¹⁴ Nevertheless, I have a few things against you:^(CV) There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam,^(CW) who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols^(CX) and committed sexual immorality.^{(CY) 15} Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.^{(CZ) 16} Repent^(DA) therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.^(DB)

¹⁷ Whoever has ears, let them hear^(DC) what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious,^(DD) I will give some of the hidden manna.^(DE) I will also give that person a white stone with a new name^(DF) written on it, known only to the one who receives it.^(DG)

These are the words of the Son of God,^(DI) whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.^{(DJ) 19} I know your deeds,^(DK) 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,^(DL) who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.^{(DM) 21} I have given her time^(DN) to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.^{(DO) 22} So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery^(DP) 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,^(DQ) and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.^(DR)

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,^{(DS) 25} except to hold on to what you have^(DT) until I come.’^(DU)

²⁶ To the one who is victorious^(DV) and does my will to the end,^(DW) I will give authority over the nations^(DX)— ²⁷ that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter^(DY) and will dash them to pieces like pottery’^[g](DZ)—just as I have received authority from my Father. ²⁸ I will also give that one the morning star.^{(EA) 29} Whoever has ears, let them hear^(EB) what the Spirit says to the churches.

These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits^[i](ED) of God and the seven stars.^(EE) I know your deeds;^(EF) you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.^{(EG) 2} Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. ³ Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent.^(EH) But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief,^(EI) and you will not know at what time^(EJ) I will come to you.

⁴ Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.^(EK) They will walk with me, dressed in white,^(EL) for they are worthy. ⁵ The one who is victorious^(EM) will, like them, be dressed in white.^(EN) I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life,^(EO) but will acknowledge that name before my Father^(EP) and his angels. ⁶ Whoever has ears, let them hear^(EQ) what the Spirit says to the churches.

These are the words of him who is holy^(ES) and true,^(ET) who holds the key of David.^(EU) What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸ I know your deeds.^(EV) See, I have placed before you an open door^(EW) that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.^{(EX) 9} I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan,^(EY) who claim to be Jews though they are not,^(EZ) but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet^(FA) and acknowledge that I have loved you.^{(FB) 10} Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you^(FC) from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world^(FD) to test^(FE) the inhabitants of the earth.^(FF)

¹¹ I am coming soon.^(FG) Hold on to what you have,^(FH) so that no one will take your crown.^{(FI) 12} The one who is victorious^(FJ) I will make a pillar^(FK) in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God^(FL) and the name of the city of my God,^(FM) the new Jerusalem,^(FN) which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. ¹³ Whoever has ears, let them hear^(FO) what the Spirit says to the churches.

These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness,^(FQ) the ruler of God’s creation.^{(FR) 15} I know your deeds,^(FS) that you are neither cold nor hot.^(FT) I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’^(FU) But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.^{(FV) 18} I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire,^(FW) so you can become rich; and white clothes^(FX) to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness;^(FY) and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

¹⁹ Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.^(FZ) So be earnest and repent.^{(GA) 20} Here I am! I stand at the door^(GB) and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,^(GC) I will come in^(GD) and eat with that person, and they with me.

²¹ To the one who is victorious,^(GE) I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,^(GF) just as I was victorious^(GG) and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² Whoever has ears, let them hear^(GH) what the Spirit says to the churches.”