The seven churches
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📚“To the angel✭ of the church of Ephesus✭ write✭: He who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands✭ says these things:2 📚“I know✭ your works, and your labour, and your patience, and how you cannot endure those who are evil,✭ and that you have tested✭ those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them liars,✭ 3 📚and that you have persevered, and have had patience, and for my name’s sake have laboured,✭ and have not fainted.
4 📚“Nevertheless I have against you✭ that you have left your first love. 5 📚Therefore remember from where you have fallen,✭ and repent, and do the first works. Or else I will come to you quickly, and will remove✭ your lampstand out of its place, unless✭ you repent.✭ 6 📚But this you have in your favour: You hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans,✭ which I also hate.
7 📚“He who has an ear, let him hear✭ what the Spirit✭ says to the churches. To him who overcomes✭ I will give the right to eat of the tree of life,✭ which is in the middle of the paradise✭ of God.
Smyrna
8 📚“And to the angel✭ of the church in Smyrna✭ write: The First and the Last,✭ who was dead and has come to life again,✭ says these things:
9 📚“I know your works and tribulation✭ and poverty✭ (but you are rich).✭ And I know✭ the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not,✭ but are a synagogue of Satan.✭ 10 📚Fear none of those things✭ which you are going to suffer. See, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested,✭ and you will have tribulation ten days.✭ Be faithful✭ even to death, and I will give you the crown of life.✭
11 📚“He who has an ear, let him hear✭ what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes✭ will not be hurt by the second death.✭
Pergamos
12 📚“And to the angel✭ of the church in Pergamos✭ write: He who has the sharp sword✭ with two edges says these things:
13 📚“I know✭ your works and where you live: where Satan’s throne is.✭ And you hold fast to my name, and have not denied my faith,✭ even in those days when Antipas✭ was my faithful martyr✭, who was slain among you, where Satan lives.✭
14 📚“However I have a few things against you,✭ because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam,✭ who taught Balak✭ how to cause the children of Israel to stumble, to have them eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. 15 📚Also you have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans,✭ which thing I hate. 16 📚Repent!✭ Or else I will come to you quickly, and will fight✭ against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 📚“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes✭ I will give some of the hidden manna✭ to eat, and will give him a white stone,✭ and in the stone a new name✭ written, known to no man except he who receives it.
Thyatira
18 📚“And to the angel✭ of the church in Thyatira✭ write: The Son of God,✭ whose eyes are like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like fine bronze✭, says these things:
19 📚“I know✭ your works, and love, and service, and faith✭, and your patience, and your works, and that the last are more than the first✭.
20 📚“However, I have a few things against you,✭ because you permit✭ that woman Jezebel,✭ who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 📚And I gave her time to repent✭ of her fornication, and she did not✭ repent. 22 📚✭Look, I will cast her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery✭ with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. 23 📚And I will kill her children✭ with death,✭ and all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts✭. And I will give to every one of you according to your works.✭ 24 📚But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, to as many as do not hold this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan,✭ as they say: I will put on you no other burden. 25 📚✭But hold on to what you already have until I come.✭
26 📚“And he who overcomes✭ and keeps my works to the end,✭ to him I will give authority over the nations; 27 📚and he will rule them✭ with a rod of iron. Like the vessels of a potter they will be broken to pieces. This I have received from my Father.✭ 28 📚And I will give him the morning star.✭
29 📚✭“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.