“This is the message from the Son of God, whose eyes blaze like fire, whose feet shine like polished brass. ¹⁹I know what you do. I know your love, your faithfulness, your service, and your patience. I know that you are doing more now than you did at first. ²⁰^*But this is what I have against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a messenger of God. By her teaching she misleads my servants into practising sexual immorality and eating food that has been offered to idols. ²¹I have given her time to repent of her sins, but she does not want to turn from her immorality. ²²And so I will throw her on to a bed where she and those who committed adultery with her will suffer terribly. I will do this now unless they repent of the wicked things they did with her. ²³^*I will also kill her followers, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who knows everyone’s thoughts and wishes. I will repay each of you according to what you have done.

²⁴“But the rest of you in Thyatira have not followed this evil teaching; you have not learnt what the others call ‘the deep secrets of Satan’. I say to you that I will not put any other burden on you. ²⁵But until I come, you must hold firmly to what you have. ^26–28^*To those who win the victory, who continue to the end to do what I want, I will give the same authority that I received from my Father: I will give them authority over the nations, to rule them with an iron rod and to break them to pieces like clay pots. I will also give them the morning star.

²⁹“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!

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Cross references

*2.20: 2 K 9:22, 30
*2.23 a: Ps 7:9; Jr 17:10 2.23 b: Ps 62:12
*2.26, 27: PS 2:8, 9 (LXX)