Revelation 2:17-26

17God's Spirit is speaking to you in the churches. You should understand what the Spirit is saying to you. You have ears, so listen carefully! To everyone who wins against Satan I will give some of my special food called manna. I will also give each of them a white stone. I will write a new name on that stone. Nobody will know that name except the person who receives it.” ’

18‘Write this to the angel of the church at Thyatira: “This is the message to you from the Son of God. He has eyes that burn brightly like flames of fire. His feet shine like bright metal.

19I know everything that you do. I know that you have great love. I know that you believe in me. I know that you continue to serve me well. You are patient and strong. You do these good things now more than you did at the beginning.

20But I have something to say against you. You let that woman Jezebel teach you. She says that she is a prophet from God. But she leads my servants into bad ways. She teaches them to have sex with many people. And she teaches them to eat food that people have given to idols.

21I have given her time to stop doing these bad things. But she refuses to change how she lives. She does not stop having sex with other men.

22Listen to this! I will cause her to suffer on her bed, so that she cannot get up. Those who join her in her sins will also suffer very much, unless they change the way they live.

23I will send a terrible illness to kill those who obey her. Then all the people in the churches will know that I look deep inside them. I know what you really want. I know what you really think. I will give each of you what is right for you, as a result of what you have done.

24But I say this to you other people in Thyatira. You have not agreed with what Jezebel taught. You have not learned what they call ‘Satan's deep secrets’. So I say this to you: I will not tell you to obey any other difficult rules.

25But continue to obey my message that you have already received. Believe in me until I come.

26Continue to obey me until the end and win the fight against Satan. If anyone does that, I will give him authority to rule over the nations of the world.