Revelation 3:7-22

New International Version

To the Church in Philadelphia

⁷“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia^(A) write:

These are the words of him who is holy^(B) and true,^(C) who holds the key of David.^(D) What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸I know your deeds.^(E) See, I have placed before you an open door^(F) that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.^(G) ⁹I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan,^(H) who claim to be Jews though they are not,^(I) but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet^(J) and acknowledge that I have loved you.^(K) ¹⁰Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you^(L) from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world^(M) to test^(N) the inhabitants of the earth.^(O)

¹¹I am coming soon.^(P) Hold on to what you have,^(Q) so that no one will take your crown.^(R) ¹²The one who is victorious^(S) I will make a pillar^(T) in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God^(U) and the name of the city of my God,^(V) the new Jerusalem,^(W) which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. ¹³Whoever has ears, let them hear^(X) what the Spirit says to the churches.

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴“To the angel of the church in Laodicea^(Y) write:

These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness,^(Z) the ruler of God’s creation.^(AA) ¹⁵I know your deeds,^(AB) that you are neither cold nor hot.^(AC) I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’^(AD) But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.^(AE) ¹⁸I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire,^(AF) so you can become rich; and white clothes^(AG) to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness;^(AH) and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

¹⁹Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.^(AI) So be earnest and repent.^(AJ) ²⁰Here I am! I stand at the door^(AK) and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,^(AL) I will come in^(AM) and eat with that person, and they with me.

²¹To the one who is victorious,^(AN) I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,^(AO) just as I was victorious^(AP) and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²²Whoever has ears, let them hear^(AQ) what the Spirit says to the churches.”