Sardis
3
📚“And to the angel✭ of the church in Sardis✭ write: He who has the seven Spirits✭ of God, and the seven stars,✭ says these things: “I know✭ your works, and that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.✭ 2 📚Be watchful,✭ and strengthen the things which remain✭, which are about to die, for I have not found your works complete before God. 3 📚Remember,✭ therefore, how you have received and heard,✭ and hold it firmly✭, and repent.✭ But if you will not watch, I will come on you like a thief,✭ and you will not know what hour I will come on you.4 📚“You have a few✭ names even in Sardis which have not defiled their clothes, and they will walk with me in white,✭ for they are worthy.✭ 5 📚He who overcomes✭ will be clothed in white clothing, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life,✭ but I will confess✭ his name in the presence of my Father and in the presence of his angels. 6 📚He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Philadelphia
7 📚“And to the angel✭ of the church in Philadelphia✭ write: He who is holy, he who is true✭, he who has the key of David,✭ he who opens and no man can shut and shuts and no man can open✭, says these things:
8 📚“I know✭ your works. Look, I have 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 📚Look, I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan✭ – who say they are Jews and are not, but lie✭ – look, I will cause them to come and show reverence at your feet✭ and to know that I have loved you.✭ 10 📚Because you have kept my word about patient endurance,✭ I will also keep you from✭ the hour of trial✭ which will come upon the whole world, to test those who live on the earth.
11 📚“Look, I am coming quickly.✭ Hold on to what you have,✭ so that no man takes your crown.✭ 12 📚Him who overcomes✭ I will make 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, which is the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God. And I will write on him my new name.✭ 13 📚He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Laodicea
14 📚“And to the angel✭ of the church of the Laodiceans✭ write: The Amen,✭ the faithful and true witness,✭ the beginning✭ of the creation of God says these things:
15 📚“I know✭ your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold✭ or hot. 16 📚So then, because you are lukewarm,✭ neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out✭ of my mouth. 17 📚✭Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have many possessions, and need nothing✭’, and do not know✭ that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. 18 📚I counsel you to buy✭ from me✭ gold✭ tried in the fire, so that you can be rich; and white clothing✭, so that you can be covered and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with ointment,✭ so that you can see.
19 📚“All those I love✭ I rebuke and discipline.✭ Be zealous, therefore, and repent.✭ 20 📚✭See, I stand✭ at the door, and knock. If anyone hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in✭ to him, and will eat with him, and he with me.