Revelation 2:18–29

A Letter to the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸“To the messenger of the church in Thyatira, write: 

The Son of God, whose eyes are like flames of fire and whose feet are like glowing bronze, says: ¹⁹I know what you do. I know your love, faith, service, and endurance. I also know that what you are doing now is greater than what you did at first. ²⁰But I have something against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. She teaches and misleads my servants to sin sexually and to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹I gave her time to turn to me and change the way she thinks and acts, but she refuses to turn away from her sexual sins. ²²Watch me! I’m going to throw her into a sickbed. Those who commit sexual sins with her will also suffer a lot, unless they turn away from what she is doing. ²³I will kill her children. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done. ²⁴But the rest of you in Thyatira—all who don’t hold on to Jezebel’s teaching, who haven’t learned what are called the deep things of Satan—I won’t burden you with anything else. ²⁵Just hold on to what you have until I come. 

²⁶I have received authority from my Father.^aI will give authority over the nations to everyone who wins the victory and continues to do what I want until the end. ²⁷Those people will rule the nations with iron scepters and shatter them like pottery. ²⁸I will also give them the morning star. ²⁹Let the person who has ears listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.