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9 I know your works, your affliction and your poverty (but you are rich) and the blasphemy of those who saying about themselves they are Jews and they are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.
10 Let no one fear the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some from you into prison, in order that you may be tested and you will have affliction ten days. Become faithful to death and I will be giving you the crown of life.
11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations. He who overcomes may never be hurt from the second death.
12 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Pergamus:
He who has the sharp two edged long-sword says these things: 13 I know your works and where you dwell–where the Adversary’s throne is, and you are holding-fast my name and did not deny my faith in the days, in which my witness, the faithful Antipas was killed beside you, where the Adversary is dwelling. 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some holding-fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast an offense in the sight the sons of Israel, even to eat idol-sacrifices and to fornicate. 15 So you also have some holding-fast the similar teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Therefore repent; otherwise I am coming to you shortly and make war with them with the long-sword of my mouth.
17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations. To the one who overcomes, I will be giving to him to eat from the manna which has been hidden and I will be giving him a white voting-pebble and a new name that has been written upon the voting-pebble, which no one knows except he who receives it.
18 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Thyatira:
The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are similar to polished brass says these things: 19 I know your works and love and faith and service and endurance and that your last works are more-than the first ones. 20 But I have this against you, that you are allowing your woman Jezebel, she who calls herself a prophetess, and she who is teaching and misleading my bondservants to fornicate and to eat idol-sacrifices. 21 And I gave some time to her, in order that she might repent, and she is not willing to repent from her fornication. 22 Behold, I cast her onto a bed and those who are committing adultery with her into great affliction, if they do not repent from her works. 23 And I will be killing her children with death, and all the congregations will know that I am he who is searching the kidneys and hearts and I will be giving to you, each one according to your works. 24 But I am saying to you and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as are not holding to this teaching, who did not know the deep things of the Adversary, as they are saying, I am not putting upon you another burden. 25 However hold-fast\'b0 to what you have, till whenever I have come.
26 And he who overcomes and he who is keeping my works to the end, to him I will be giving authority over the nations. 27 And he will shepherd them with an iron rod, as the vessels of the potter will be crushed; as I have also received from my Father; 28 and I will be giving to him the morning star.
29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
3 1 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Sardis:
He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: I know your works, that you have a name, that you live; and you are dead. 2 Become watchful and establish the rest of the things, which were about to be cast away; for I have not found your works having been fulfilled in the sight of my God. 3 Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. Therefore if you do not watch, I will be coming upon you like a thief and you may never know what hour I will be coming upon you. 4 But you have a few names in Sardis who did not defile their garments and they will be walking with me in white, because they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes this, he will be dressed in white garments, and I will never wipe-away his name out of the Book of Life and I will confess his name in the sight of my Father and in the sight of his messengers.
6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
7 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia:
He (the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock, except he who opens and no one will open) says these things: 8 I know your works (behold, I have given you an opened door which is in your sight, which no one is able to lock it), that you have little power and kept my word and did not deny my name. 9 Behold, I give those from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who say they are themselves Jews and they are not, but are lying, behold, I will make them in order that they should come and should worship in the sight of your feet and should know that I have loved you. 10 Because you kept the word of my endurance, I also will be keeping you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole inhabited-earth, to test those who are dwelling upon the earth. 11 I am coming shortly. Hold-fast what you have, in order that no one may take your crown. 12 He who overcomes, I will be making him a pillar in the temple of my God and he may never go outside anymore and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God and my own new name.
13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
14 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea:
The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the one in the beginning from the creation of God, says these things: 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish-that you might be cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm and not hot nor cold, I am about to puke you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich and have enriched ourselves and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and are poor and blind and naked. 18 I am counseling together with you to buy gold from me, having been refined out of fire, in order that you may be enriched, and in order that you should dress yourself with white garments and in order that the shame of your nakedness should not be manifested to all, and in order that you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking; if anyone hears my voice and if he opens the door, I will enter to him and will dine with him and he with me. 21 He who overcomes, I will be giving to him to sit with me at my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father at his throne.
22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations. He who overcomes may never be hurt from the second death.
12 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Pergamus:
He who has the sharp two edged long-sword says these things: 13 I know your works and where you dwell–where the Adversary’s throne is, and you are holding-fast my name and did not deny my faith in the days, in which my witness, the faithful Antipas was killed beside you, where the Adversary is dwelling. 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some holding-fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast an offense in the sight the sons of Israel, even to eat idol-sacrifices and to fornicate. 15 So you also have some holding-fast the similar teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Therefore repent; otherwise I am coming to you shortly and make war with them with the long-sword of my mouth.
17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations. To the one who overcomes, I will be giving to him to eat from the manna which has been hidden and I will be giving him a white voting-pebble and a new name that has been written upon the voting-pebble, which no one knows except he who receives it.
18 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Thyatira:
The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are similar to polished brass says these things: 19 I know your works and love and faith and service and endurance and that your last works are more-than the first ones. 20 But I have this against you, that you are allowing your woman Jezebel, she who calls herself a prophetess, and she who is teaching and misleading my bondservants to fornicate and to eat idol-sacrifices. 21 And I gave some time to her, in order that she might repent, and she is not willing to repent from her fornication. 22 Behold, I cast her onto a bed and those who are committing adultery with her into great affliction, if they do not repent from her works. 23 And I will be killing her children with death, and all the congregations will know that I am he who is searching the kidneys and hearts and I will be giving to you, each one according to your works. 24 But I am saying to you and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as are not holding to this teaching, who did not know the deep things of the Adversary, as they are saying, I am not putting upon you another burden. 25 However hold-fast\'b0 to what you have, till whenever I have come.
26 And he who overcomes and he who is keeping my works to the end, to him I will be giving authority over the nations. 27 And he will shepherd them with an iron rod, as the vessels of the potter will be crushed; as I have also received from my Father; 28 and I will be giving to him the morning star.
29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
3 1 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Sardis:
He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: I know your works, that you have a name, that you live; and you are dead. 2 Become watchful and establish the rest of the things, which were about to be cast away; for I have not found your works having been fulfilled in the sight of my God. 3 Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. Therefore if you do not watch, I will be coming upon you like a thief and you may never know what hour I will be coming upon you. 4 But you have a few names in Sardis who did not defile their garments and they will be walking with me in white, because they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes this, he will be dressed in white garments, and I will never wipe-away his name out of the Book of Life and I will confess his name in the sight of my Father and in the sight of his messengers.
6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
7 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Philadelphia:
He (the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock, except he who opens and no one will open) says these things: 8 I know your works (behold, I have given you an opened door which is in your sight, which no one is able to lock it), that you have little power and kept my word and did not deny my name. 9 Behold, I give those from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who say they are themselves Jews and they are not, but are lying, behold, I will make them in order that they should come and should worship in the sight of your feet and should know that I have loved you. 10 Because you kept the word of my endurance, I also will be keeping you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole inhabited-earth, to test those who are dwelling upon the earth. 11 I am coming shortly. Hold-fast what you have, in order that no one may take your crown. 12 He who overcomes, I will be making him a pillar in the temple of my God and he may never go outside anymore and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God and my own new name.
13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.
14 And write to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea:
The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the one in the beginning from the creation of God, says these things: 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish-that you might be cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm and not hot nor cold, I am about to puke you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich and have enriched ourselves and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and are poor and blind and naked. 18 I am counseling together with you to buy gold from me, having been refined out of fire, in order that you may be enriched, and in order that you should dress yourself with white garments and in order that the shame of your nakedness should not be manifested to all, and in order that you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I am standing at the door and knocking; if anyone hears my voice and if he opens the door, I will enter to him and will dine with him and he with me. 21 He who overcomes, I will be giving to him to sit with me at my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father at his throne.
22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the congregations.