Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Write To Philadelphia: You Have Kept My Word. I Am Giving You an Opened Door

⁷ “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write— These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having the key^[a] of David, the One opening and no one will shut, and shutting and no one opens. ⁸ I know your works^[b]. Behold— I have given before you an opened door^[c] (which, no one is able to shut it). Because^[d] you have a little^[e] power^[f], and you kept My word, and you did not deny My name, ⁹ behold— I am giving some^[g] from the synagogue of Satan, the ones saying that they are Jews (and they are not), but they are lying. Behold— I will make them so that they will come and worship^[h] before your feet, and they may know that I loved you. ¹⁰ Because you kept the word of My^[i] endurance, I also will keep^[j] you from^[k] the hour of testing, the hour going-to come upon the whole world to test the ones dwelling upon the earth^[l]. ¹¹ I am coming quickly. Be holding-on-to what you have in order that no one may take your crown. ¹² The one overcoming— I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never go outside again. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God— the new Jerusalem, the one coming down out of heaven from My God— and My new name. ¹³ Let the one having an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.