¹⁰Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Beware, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.^* ¹¹Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Whoever conquers will not be harmed by the second death.^*

The Message to Pergamum

¹²“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword:^*

¹³“I know where you are living, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding fast to my name, and you did not deny your faith in me^e even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan lives. ¹⁴But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.^f^* ¹⁵So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶Repent, then. If not, I will come to you soon and wage war against them with the sword of my mouth.^* ¹⁷Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.^*

The Message to Thyatira

¹⁸“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze:^*

¹⁹“I know your works: your love, faith, service, and endurance. I know that your latest works are greater than the first. ²⁰But I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and is teaching and beguiling my servants to engage in sexual immorality^g and to eat food sacrificed to idols.^* ²¹I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.^h^* ²²Beware, I am throwing her on a bed, and those who commit adultery with her I am throwing into great distress, unless they repent of her doings,

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Footnotes

eOr deny my faith
fOr prostitution
gOr prostitution
hOr prostitution

Cross references

*Dan 1:12; Rev 3:10
*Rev 20:14; 21:8
*Rev 1:11, 16
*Num 24:14; 1 Cor 6:13; 8:9; 10:19, 20; 2 Pet 2:15; Jude 11
*2 Thess 2:8; Rev 1:16
*Isa 62:2; Jn 6:49, 50; Rev 19:12
*Rev 1:11; 14:15
*1 Kings 16:31; 21:25; 2 Kings 9:7; Acts 15:20
*Rom 2:4; Rev 9:20