

7 Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations: + To the one who conquers + I will grant to eat of the tree of life, + which is in the paradise of God.’Ĩ “And to the angel of the congregation in Smyrʹna write: These are the things that he says, ‘the First and the Last,’ + who became dead and came to life again: + 9 ‘I know your tribulation and poverty-but you are rich +-and the blasphemy by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but they are a synagogue of Satan. + 6 Still, you do have this in your favor: that you hate the deeds of the sect of Nic If you do not, I will come to you, and I will remove your lampstand + from its place, unless you repent. + 4 Nevertheless, I hold this against you, that you have left the love you had at first.ĥ “‘Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent + and do the deeds you did at first.

3 You are also showing endurance, and you have persevered for the sake of my name + and have not grown weary. sus + write: These are the things that he says who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands: + 2 ‘I know your deeds, and your labor and endurance, and that you cannot tolerate bad men, and that you put to the test those who say they are apostles, + but they are not, and you found them to be liars.+Ģ“To the angel + of the congregation in Ephʹe 20 As for the sacred secret of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars mean the angels of the seven congregations, and the seven lampstands mean the seven congregations. * + 19 So write down the things you saw, and the things that are, and the things that will take place after these. I am the First + and the Last, + 18 and the living one, + and I became dead, + but look! I am living forever and ever, + and I have the keys of death and of the Grave. + 17 When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet.Īnd he laid his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars, + and out of his mouth a sharp, long, two-edged sword + was protruding, and his countenance * was like the sun when it shines at its brightest. 14 Moreover, his head and his hair were white as white wool, as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame, + 15 and his feet were like fine copper + when glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters. ceʹa.” +ġ2 I turned to see who was speaking with me, and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, + 13 and in the midst of the lampstands someone like a son of man, + clothed in a garment that reached down to the feet and wearing a golden sash around his chest.tiʹra, + in Sarʹdis, + in Philadelphia, + and in La.10 By inspiration I came to be in the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a strong voice like that of a trumpet, 11 saying: “What you see, write in a scroll and send it to the seven congregations: in Ephʹe meʹga,” * + says Jehovah * God, “the One who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.” +ĩ I John, your brother and a sharer with you in the tribulation + and kingdom + and endurance + in association with Jesus, + was on the island called Patʹmos for speaking about God and bearing witness concerning Jesus.Amen.ħ Look! He is coming with the clouds, + and every eye will see him, and those who pierced him and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief because of him.
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To him who loves us + and who set us free from our sins by means of his own blood +- 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, + priests + to his God and Father-yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. May you have undeserved kindness and peace from “the One who is and who was and who is coming,” + and from the seven spirits + that are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, “the Faithful Witness,” + “the firstborn from the dead,” + and “the Ruler of the kings of the earth.” + 3 Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and who observe the things written in it, + for the appointed time is near.Ĥ John to the seven congregations + that are in the province of Asia:

And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John, + 2 who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, yes, to all the things he saw. 1A revelation * by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, + to show his slaves + the things that must shortly take place.
