Bible Gateway passage: Revelation 2:9-23 - English Standard Version (2024)

⁹“‘I know your tribulation and ^(A)your poverty (^(B)but you are rich) and the slander^[a] of ^(C)those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, ^(D)that you may be tested, and for ^(E)ten days ^(F)you will have tribulation. ^(G)Be faithful ^(H)unto death, and I will give you ^(I)the crown of life. ^11(J)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(K)The one who conquers will not be hurt by ^(L)the second death.’

To the Church in Pergamum

¹²“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has ^(M)the sharp two-edged sword.

¹³“‘I know where you dwell, ^(N)where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not ^(O)deny my faith^[b] even in the days of Antipas ^(P)my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of ^(Q)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might ^(R)eat food sacrificed to idols and ^(S)practice sexual immorality. ¹⁵So also you have some who hold the teaching of ^(T)the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶Therefore repent. If not, ^(U)I will come to you soon and ^(V)war against them with ^(W)the sword of my mouth. ^17(X)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(Y)To the one who conquers I will give some of ^(Z)the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with ^(AA)a new name written on the stone ^(AB)that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, ^(AC)who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

^19(AD)“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ²⁰But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(AE)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(AF)to practice sexual immorality and ^(AG)to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹I gave her time to repent, but ^(AH)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²²Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, ²³and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he ^(AI)who searches mind and heart, and ^(AJ)I will give to each of you according to your works.

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