Revelation 2:10-3:22 »'Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil (false accuser) (Devil) is about to throw you into prison, that you may be tested. You will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful even if you must die, and I will give you the crown of life.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ »'Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil (false accuser) (Devil) is about to throw you into prison, that you may be tested. You will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful even if you must die, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ »'He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.' ¹² »To the angel of the congregation in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword: ¹³ »'I know where you live and where the throne of Satan is. You cling to my name and have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness. He was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ »'I have a few things against you: you have people there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to present a snare to the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication. ¹⁵ »'You also have those who hold the doctrine (teaching) of the sect of Nicolaus in like manner. ¹⁶ »'Turn away from your sins! If you do not repent I will come to you soon. And I will fight against those people with the sword that comes out of my mouth. ¹⁷ »'He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations! To those who overcome in victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.' ¹⁸ »To the angel of the congregation in Thyatira write: This is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes blaze like fire, whose feet shine like polished brass. ¹⁹ »'I know your works. I know your love, your faithfulness, your service, and your patience. I know that you are doing more now than you did at first. ²⁰ »'But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my servants astray so that they commit immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹ »'I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. ²² »'Watch this! I am going to throw her into a sickbed. Those who commit sexual sins with her will also suffer much trouble, unless they repent and turn away from what she is doing. ²³ »'I will kill her children with deadly plague. Then all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done. ²⁴ »'But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold on to Jezebel's teaching, who have not learned what are called the «deep things of Satan," I will not burden you with anything else. ²⁵ »'Just hold on to what you have until I come. ²⁶ »'To the person who conquers and continues to do my works to the end, I will give power (authority) over the nations. ²⁷ »'He will rule them with a rod of iron and break them to pieces like clay vessels: even as I received from my Father. ²⁸ »'I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ »'He who can hear let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.'« ³ ¹ »To the angel of the congregation in Sardis write: 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 are alive, and you are [really] dead. ² »'Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain that are at the point of death: for I have not found your works perfect (completed) before God. ³ »'Remember what you received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not stay awake, I will come to you like a thief. You will not know the hour when I will come to you. ⁴ »'You have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled (defiled) their garments. They will walk with me in white: for they are worthy. ⁵ »'He who overcomes will be clothed in white garments. I will not blot out his name from the book of life. In fact I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶ »'He who can hear let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.' ⁷ »To the angel of the congregation in Philadelphia write: He says these things. He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens. ⁸ »'I know your works (deeds) (acts). Pay attention, I set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name. ⁹ »'I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, for they lie; I will make them come and bow down before your feet. They will know that I have loved you. ¹⁰ »'Because you have kept the word of my patience (endurance), I also will keep you from the hour of testing. This will come upon the whole world to test (scrutinize) (discipline) (examine) those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ »'I come quickly: hold fast what you have so that no one will take your crown. ¹² »'I will make the one who overcomes, a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will not go out from it anymore. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is the New Jerusalem. This city comes down out of heaven from my God. I will write my new name on him. ¹³ »'He who can hear let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.' ¹⁴ »'To the angel of the congregation in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation says this: ¹⁵ »'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. ¹⁶ »'Because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ »'You say, «I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. ¹⁸ »'I counsel you to buy gold from me, gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed. In this way the shame of your nakedness will not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see. ¹⁹ »'I reprove and discipline those whom I love: be zealous therefore, and repent. ²⁰ »'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and dine with him, and he with me. ²¹ »'To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me on my throne, even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² »'He who can hear let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.'«