To the Church in Ephesus

1“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:

Thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks among the seven golden lampstands:

2I know your works, your toil, and your perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people, and have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them false. 3You have perseverance, you have endured for the sake of my name, and you have not grown weary. 4But I have this against you: you have forsaken your first love. 5Therefore, you must remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I am coming to you, and will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6But you have this: that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7Whoever has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.”

To the Church in Smyrna

8“To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:

“Thus says the First and the Last, who was dead and has come to life:

9“I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look! The devil is about to throw some of y’all into prison to test y’all, and y’all will have tribulation for ten days. You are to be faithful to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11Whoever has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers won’t be harmed by the second death.

To the Church in Pergamum

12“To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:

“Thus says the one who has a sharp, double-edged sword: 13“I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold firmly to my name and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among y’all, where Satan dwells. 14But I have few things against you: you have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. 15In the same way, you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16Therefore, you must repent! Otherwise, I am coming to you soon, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. 17Whoever has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give them a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows but the one who receives it.

To the Church in Thyatira

18“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

“Thus says the Son of God, the one whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like burnished bronze:

19“I know your works, your love, faith, deacon-work, endurance, and that your recent works are greater than the first. 20But I have this against you: that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and leads my slaves astray to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols. 21I gave her time to repent, but she did not want to repent of her sexual immorality. 22Look! I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into a great tribulation, unless they repent of her works. 23I will kill her children with death, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of y’all according to y’all’s works. 24But I say to the rest of y’all in Thyatira, all who don’t have this teaching, who don’t know the so-called deep things of Satan, I am not putting any other burden on y’all, 25except that y’all hold on to what y’all have until I come. 26To the one who conquers and keeps my works until the end, I will give authority over the ethnic groups, 27and that one ‘will shepherd them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots,’+Psa 2:9 just as I have received from my Father, 28and I will give that one the morning star. 29Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.