Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Write To Smyrna: You Are Going To Suffer. Be Faithful

⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write— These things says the First and the Last Who became dead and came-to-life. ⁹ I know your affliction, and^[a] poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy by the ones saying that they are Jews (and they are not), but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Do not be fearing at all the things which you are about to suffer. Behold— the devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. And you will have affliction for ten days. Be^[b] faithful until^[c] death, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let the one having an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one overcoming will never be harmed by the second death.