17 Whoever has ears, let them hear(A) what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious,(B) I will give some of the hidden manna.(C) I will also give that person a white stone with a new name(D) written on it, known only to the one who receives it.(E)

To the Church in Thyatira

18 “To the angel of the church in Thyatira(F) write:

These are the words of the Son of God,(G) whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.(H) 19 I know your deeds,(I) your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.

20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel,(J) who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.(K) 21 I have given her time(L) to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.(M) 22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery(N) with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. 23 I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds,(O) and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.(P)

24 Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you,(Q) 25 except to hold on to what you have(R) until I come.’(S)

26 To the one who is victorious(T) and does my will to the end,(U) I will give authority over the nations(V) 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter(W) and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[a](X)—just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give that one the morning star.(Y) 29 Whoever has ears, let them hear(Z) what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 2:27 Psalm 2:9

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