Revelation 2

The Book of Revelation

REVELATION 2

2:1To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:

2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have* not grown weary.

2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

2:5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

2:6But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

2:12“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

2:13“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

2:15So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise*.

2:16Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

2:18“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

2:19I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

2:21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

2:22Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

2:24But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

2:25Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come.

2:26He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

2:27He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

2:28and I will give him the morning star.

2:29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

The Book of Revelation

THE BOOK OF REVELATION   REVELATION 1   REVELATION 2   REVELATION 3   REVELATION 4   REVELATION 5
REVELATION 6   REVELATION 7   REVELATION 8   REVELATIION 9   REVELATION 10   REVELATION 11
REVELATION 12   EVELATION 13   REVELATION 14   REVELATION 15   REVELATION 16   REVELATION 17
REVELATION 18   REVELATION 19   REVELATION 20   REVELATION 21   REVELATION 22
THE SEVEN SEALS OF THE APOCALYPSE   THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATION
THE BEASTS OF REVELATION   WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST   PROPHECIES OF THE ANTICHRIST

Revelation 1

The Book of Revelation

REVELATION 1

1:1This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

1:2who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

1:3Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

1:4John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

1:6and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1:7Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,*” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

1:11saying, “*What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies*: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

1:12I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.

1:13And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

1:14His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

1:15His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

1:16He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

1:17When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

1:19Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;

1:20the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.

The Book of Revelation

THE BOOK OF REVELATION   REVELATION 1   REVELATION 2   REVELATION 3   REVELATION 4   REVELATION 5
REVELATION 6   REVELATION 7   REVELATION 8   REVELATIION 9   REVELATION 10   REVELATION 11
REVELATION 12   EVELATION 13   REVELATION 14   REVELATION 15   REVELATION 16   REVELATION 17
REVELATION 18   REVELATION 19   REVELATION 20   REVELATION 21   REVELATION 22
THE SEVEN SEALS OF THE APOCALYPSE   THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATION
THE BEASTS OF REVELATION   WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST   PROPHECIES OF THE ANTICHRIST