CHAPTER II.
LETTERS TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
1 2:1To the angel of the church in Ephesus write, These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, 2:2I know your works and your labor and your patience, and that you cannot bear the wicked, and you tried those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them false; 2:3and you have patience, and suffered for my name, and did not faint. 2:4But I have against you that you have left your first love. 2:5Remember therefore whence you have fallen, and change your minds, and do the first works, otherwise I will come to you and remove your candlestick from its place, unless you change your minds. 2:6But you have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 2:7Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.
2 2:8And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, These things says the first and the last, who was dead and lived, 2:9I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 2:10Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life. 2:11Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; He that conquers shall not be injured by the second death.
3 2:12And to the angel of the church in Pergamus write, These things says he that has the two-edged sharp sword, 2:13I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 2:14But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication. 2:15So in like manner you have also those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. 2:16Change your minds therefore; otherwise I will come to you quickly, and fight with them with the sword of my mouth. 2:17Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white token, and on the token a new name engraved, which no one knows but he that receives it.
4 2:18And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write, These things says the Son of God, he that has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet like fine brass, 2:19I know your works and love and faith and service and your patience, and your last works more than the first. 2:20But I have against you that you allow your wife Jezebel, who says she is a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication and eat things offered to idols. 2:21And I gave her time to change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her fornication. 2:22Behold, I will cast her on a [sick] bed, and those committing adultery with her into great affliction, unless they change their minds from her works. 2:23And her children will I kill with pestilence, and all the churches shall know that I am he that searches the minds and hearts, and I will give you each one according to your works. 2:24But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira who have not this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I will put on you no other burden; 2:25but what you have, hold fast till I come. 2:26And to him that conquers and keeps my works till the end, I will give power over the nations, 2:27and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and crush them like earthen vessels, as I also have received of my Father, 2:28and I will give him the star of the morning. 2:29Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
5 3:1And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things says he that has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, I know your works, that you have a name to live, and are dead. 3:2Be watchful, confirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found your works perfect before my God. 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you. 3:4But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 3:5He that conquers shall be clothed in white robes, and I will not obliterate his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 3:6Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
6 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open, 3:8I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept my word, and did not deny my name. 3:9Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them come and worship at your feet, and they shall know that I have loved you. 3:10Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come on all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth. 3:11I come quickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown. 3:12Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out of it no more, and I will write on 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 new name. 3:13Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
7 3:14And 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, 3:15I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. 3:16Because therefore you are warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth. 3:17For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked. 3:18I advise you to buy of me gold purified in the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you may put on, and the shame of your nakedness not appear, and an eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see. 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous therefore and change your minds. 3:20Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one shall hear my voice and open the door, I will enter in to him, and feast with him, and he with me. 3:21To him that conquers will I give to sit down with me on my throne, as I conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 3:22Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.