Revelation 2

Modern

Literal

To the Church in Ephesus

¹“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:

These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

¹“ To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says the One holding the seven stars in His right hand, walking in the midst of the seven golden lampstands.

²I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.

²I know your works and your labor and perseverance, and that you are not able to bear evil ones. And you tested those claiming themselves to be apostles and are not, and you found them false.

³Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.

³And you have perseverance, and you endured because of My name, and you have not grown weary.

⁴But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

⁴But I have against you that you abandoned your first love.

⁵Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

⁵Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works. But if not, I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand out of its place, unless you should repent.

⁶But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁶But you have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

⁷The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one overcoming, I will give to him to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

To the Church in Smyrna

⁸To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:

These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.

⁸And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the First and the Last, who became dead and lived.

⁹I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

⁹I know your tribulation and poverty—but you are rich—and the slander of those claiming themselves to be Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹⁰Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁰Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you might be tested; and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give to you the crown of life.

¹¹He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.

¹¹The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one overcoming shall not be harmed by the second death.

To the Church in Pergamum

¹²To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:

These are the words of the One who holds the sharp, double-edged sword.

¹²And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things says the One having the sharp two-edged sword.

¹³I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits, yet you hold fast to My name. You did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of My faithful witness Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.

¹³I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and you hold fast to My name, and you did not deny My faith, even in the days of Antipas My witness, My faithful one, who was killed beside you, where Satan dwells.

¹⁴But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

¹⁴But I have a few things against you, because you have some there holding the teaching of Balaam, who would teach Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

¹⁵In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

¹⁵So you also have some holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

¹⁶Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

¹⁶Therefore repent! But if not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will war against them with the sword of My mouth.

¹⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

¹⁷The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one overcoming, I will give to him the hidden manna, and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows except the one receiving it.

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:

These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.

¹⁸And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, the One having His eyes as a flame of fire, and His feet like burnished bronze.

¹⁹I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latest deeds are greater than your first.

¹⁹I know your works, and your love and faith and service and perseverance; and your last works are more than the first.

²⁰But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

²⁰But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one calling herself a prophetess and teaching and leading astray My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

²¹Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

²¹And I gave her time that she might repent, and she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

²²Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.

²²Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they shall repent of her works.

²³Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

²³And I will kill her children with death, and all the churches will know that I am the One searching kidneys and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works.

²⁴But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you

²⁴But I say to you, to the rest of those in Thyatira, as many as do not have this teaching, who did not know the depths of Satan, as they say: I will not cast upon you any other burden.

²⁵than to hold fast to what you have until I come.

²⁵But hold fast to what you have until which time I might come.

²⁶And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

²⁶And the one overcoming and keeping My works until the end, I will give to him authority over the nations,

²⁷He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery—^ajust as I have received authority from My Father.

²⁷and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken in pieces—just as I also have received from My Father.

²⁸And I will give him the morning star.

²⁸And I will give to him the morning star.

²⁹He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

²⁹The one having an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.