To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write:
"He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks in the
midst of the seven golden lampstands says these things:
"I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that
you can't tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves
apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
You have
perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown
weary.
But I have this against you, that you left your first
love.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent
and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will
move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
But this
you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also
hate.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the
assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of
life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
"To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write:
"The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says
these things:
"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are
rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are
not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Don't be afraid of the things
which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some
of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have
oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the
crown of life.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second
death.
"To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write:
"He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
"I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne
is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of
Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where
Satan dwells.
But I have a few things against you, because you
have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to
throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
So you
also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans in the same
way.
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I
will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
He who
has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him
who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give
him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one
knows but he who receives it.
"To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write:
"The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet
are like burnished brass, says these things:
I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient
endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
But
I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who
calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to
commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual
immorality.
Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who
commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of
her works.
I will kill her children with Death, and all the
assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I
will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
But to you
I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this
teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to
you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.
Nevertheless that which you have, hold firmly until I come.
He
who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give
authority over the nations.
He will rule them with a rod of
iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my
Father:
and I will give him the morning star.
He who has
an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.