Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² `Write this to the angel of the church people in Pergamum: Here are the words of the one who has the long knife which is sharp on both sides.

¹³ `He says, "I know where you live. You live where Satan rules. But you keep my name and you have never said that you do not believe in me. You kept on believing in me even in the time of Antipas. He said he believed in me and was true to me. He was killed among you where Satan lives.

¹⁴ But I have a few things to say against you. You have some people there who believe the teaching of Balaam. He showed Balak how to trick the people of Israel and make them do wrong. They ate food that was given to idols, and they used sex wrongly.

¹⁵ Also, you have people among you who believe the teaching of the Nicolaitans. I hate the things they do.

¹⁶ Stop! If you do not, I will come soon and I will fight against them with the long knife that comes from my mouth."

¹⁷ `He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. He says, "I will give some of the secret food to the person who wins. And I will give him a white stone. A new name will be written on the stone. No one will know the name but the one who gets the stone." '