Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Write To Pergamum: You Have Some Holding On To False Teachings. Repent

¹² “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum, write— These things says the One having the sharp double-edged sword. ¹³ I know where you dwell: where Satan’s throne is. And you are holding-on-to My name. And you did not deny My faith^[a], even during the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there ones holding-on-to the teaching of Balaam, who was teaching Balak to put a cause-of-falling before the sons of Israel to eat foods-sacrificed-to-idols and to commit-sexual-immorality. ¹⁵ So you also have ones holding-on-to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise. ¹⁶ Therefore repent. Otherwise, I am coming to you^[b] quickly. And I will fight^[c] against them with the sword of My mouth. ¹⁷ Let the one having an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one overcoming— I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble. And having been written upon the pebble is a new name which no one knows except the one^[d] receiving it.