Revelation 2:19-4:11 I know your works and your love and your faith and your service and your endurance, and that your last works are more than your first.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ I know your works and your love and your faith and your service and your endurance, and that your last works are more than your first. ²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my servants to commit unchastity and to eat things sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but she will not repent of her unchastity. ²² See, I will cast her into a bed and those who commit adultery with her into great distress, unless they repent of their deeds, ²³ and her children I will surely kill. All the churches shall know that I am he who searches hearts and will give to each of you according to your deeds. ²⁴ But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, as many as do not hold this teaching, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I do not lay on you any other burden. ²⁵ But hold fast what you have until I come. ²⁶ He who conquers and keeps my commands to the end — I will give him authority over the nations, ²⁷ and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as earthenware is broken to pieces, just as I also have received from my Father. ²⁸ And I will give him the morning star. ²⁹ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ³ ¹ "To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write: "These things says he who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your deeds, that you have the name of being alive, but are dead. ² Become watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die. For I have not found any works of yours complete before my God. ³ Remember, then, how you have received and heard, and give attention and repent. Unless you watch, I will come like a thief and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. ⁴ But you have a few names in Sardis which have not stained their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. ⁵ He who conquers shall be thus clothed in white garments, and I will not erase his name from the book of life, but will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ⁷ "To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write: "These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts and who shuts and no one opens: ⁸ "I know your deeds. See, I have set before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and you have kept my word and have not disowned my name. ⁹ See, I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, men who call themselves Jews when they are not but are lying — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they shall know that I have loved you. ¹⁰ Because you have kept my command of patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is about to come on all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth. ¹¹ I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may take your crown. ¹² He who conquers — I will make him a pillar in the Temple of my God and he will never go out, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down from heaven from my God, and I will write on him my own new name. ¹³ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ¹⁴ "To the Angel of the Church in Laodicea write: "These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: ¹⁵ "I know your deeds — that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I shall spew you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, 'I am rich and have grown wealthy and lack nothing,' and do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on, so that the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. ¹⁹ All that I love I rebuke and discipline. Be earnest, then, and repent. ²⁰ See, I am standing at the door and knocking. If any one listens to my voice and opens his door, I will come in with him and will feast with him and he with me. ²¹ He who conquers — to him I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²² Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ⁴ ¹ AFTER this I looked and there was an open door in heaven and the voice that I had heard at first, as if of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here and I will show you things that must come to pass hereafter." ² Immediately I became in the Spirit. A throne was standing in heaven and on the throne One was sitting. ³ He who was sitting there was in appearance like a jasper stone and a sardius. A rainbow, in appearance like an emerald, encircled the throne. ⁴ Around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones and on these thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white garments and with golden crowns on their heads. ⁵ From the throne issued lightnings and voices and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. These are the seven Spirits of God. ⁶ Before the throne there was as it were a glassy sea, like crystal. Near the throne and around the throne there were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. ⁷ The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature was like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man's, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. ⁸ The four living creatures have each six wings, and around and within they are full of eyes. They cease not saying day and night, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come." ⁹ And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives for the ages of the ages, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne saying, ¹¹ "Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things and because of thy will they existed and were created."