Revelation 2

1“To 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 lamp stands says these things:Cross-references: Ezek 28:13 · Matt 18:20 · Matt 28:20 · John 5:35 · Rev 1:11 · Rev 1:16 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 1:6 · Matt 7:23 · 2Cor 11:13 · Gal 1:7 · Eph 4:14 · 1Thess 1:3 · +13 more

3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.Cross-references: Ps 37:7 · Ps 69:7 · Mic 7:9 · Mark 15:21 · Luke 8:15 · Luke 14:27 · +42 more

4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.Cross-references: Jer 2:2 · Matt 24:12 · Phil 1:9 · Phil 3:13 · 1Thess 4:9 · 2Thess 1:3 · +4 more

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 lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.Cross-references: Isa 1:26 · Isa 14:12 · Jer 2:2 · Ezek 16:61 · Ezek 20:43 · Ezek 36:31 · +24 more

6But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.Cross-references: 2Chr 19:2 · Ps 26:5 · Ps 101:3 · Ps 139:21 · 2John 1:9 · Rev 2:14

7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.Cross-references: Gen 2:9 · Gen 3:22 · Prov 3:18 · Prov 11:30 · Prov 13:12 · Prov 15:4 · +26 more

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:Cross-references: Rev 1:8 · Rev 1:11 · Rev 1:17 · Rev 2:1

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.Cross-references: Matt 4:10 · Luke 4:18 · Luke 6:20 · Luke 12:21 · Luke 22:65 · John 16:33 · +20 more

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.Cross-references: Dan 1:12 · Dan 1:14 · Dan 3:16 · Hab 2:3 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 10:28 · +25 more

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.Cross-references: Rev 2:7 · Rev 2:17 · Rev 13:9 · Rev 20:6 · Rev 20:14 · Rev 21:8

12“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:Cross-references: Isa 11:4 · Heb 4:12 · Rev 1:11 · Rev 1:16 · Rev 2:1 · Rev 2:16 · +2 more

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.Cross-references: Matt 10:23 · Matt 24:9 · Luke 21:17 · Acts 9:14 · Acts 22:20 · 1Thess 5:21 · +14 more

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.Cross-references: Num 24:14 · Num 25:1 · Num 31:8 · Num 31:16 · Josh 24:9 · Isa 57:14 · +24 more

15So also you likewise have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.Cross-references: Rev 2:6

16Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.Cross-references: Isa 11:4 · Isa 49:2 · Acts 17:30 · Eph 6:17 · 2Thess 2:8 · Rev 1:16 · +8 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 25:14 · Ps 36:8 · Prov 3:32 · Prov 14:10 · Isa 56:4 · Isa 62:2 · +14 more

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:Cross-references: Ps 2:7 · Matt 3:17 · Matt 4:3 · Matt 17:5 · Matt 27:54 · Luke 1:35 · +13 more

19“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.Cross-references: Job 17:9 · Ps 92:14 · Prov 4:18 · John 15:2 · 1Cor 13:1 · Col 3:14 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 34:15 · Num 25:1 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 17:4 · 1Ki 17:13 · 1Ki 19:1 · +11 more

21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.Cross-references: Jer 8:4 · Rom 2:4 · Rom 9:22 · 1Pet 3:20 · 2Pet 3:9 · 2Pet 3:15 · +3 more

22Behold, I will throw her and those who commit adultery with her into a bed of great oppression, unless they repent of her works.Cross-references: Jer 36:3 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 18:30 · Ezek 23:29 · Ezek 23:45 · Ezek 33:11 · +9 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 13:11 · Deut 17:13 · Deut 19:20 · Deut 21:21 · 1Sam 16:7 · 1Chr 28:9 · +26 more

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.Cross-references: Acts 15:28 · 1Cor 2:10 · 2Cor 2:11 · 2Cor 11:3 · 2Cor 11:13 · Eph 6:11 · +3 more

25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.Cross-references: John 14:3 · John 21:22 · Acts 11:28 · Rom 12:9 · 1Cor 4:5 · 1Cor 11:26 · +10 more

26He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.Cross-references: Ps 2:8 · Ps 49:14 · Dan 7:18 · Dan 7:22 · Dan 7:27 · Matt 19:28 · +24 more

27He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots, as I also have received of my Father;Cross-references: Ps 2:8 · Ps 49:14 · Ps 149:5 · Isa 30:14 · Jer 19:11 · Dan 7:22 · +5 more

28and I will give him the morning star.Cross-references: Luke 1:78 · 2Pet 1:19 · Rev 22:16

29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.Cross-references: Rev 2:7