New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 2:13-29

13‘I know where you dwell, where 1Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny 2My faith even in the days of Antipas, My 3witness, My 4faithful one, who was killed among you, 5where Satan dwells. 14But 6I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the 7teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, 8to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality. 15So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the 9Nicolaitans. 16Therefore 10repent; or else 11I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with 12the sword of My mouth. 17 13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 14To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden 15manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a 16new name written on the stone 17which no one knows but he who receives it.’

18“And to the angel of the church in 18Thyatira write:

19The Son of God, 20who has 21eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:

19‘22I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and 23perseverance, and that your 24deeds of late are greater than 25at first. 20But 26I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman 27Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they 28commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 29I gave her time to repent, and she 30does not want to repent of her immorality. 22Behold, I will throw her 31on a bed of sickness, and those who 32commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of 33her deeds. 23And I will kill her children with 34pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who 35searches the 36minds and hearts; and 37I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. 24But I say to you, the rest who are in 38Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the 39deep things of Satan, as they call them--I 40place no other burden on you. 25Nevertheless 41what you have, hold fast 42until I come. 26 43He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds 44until the end, 45to him I will give authority over the 46nations; 27and he shall 47 48rule them with a rod of iron, 49as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father; 28and I will give him 50the morning star. 29 51He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

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Notes

1. Revelation 2:13 Matt 4:10; Rev 2:24 ↩
2. Revelation 2:13 1 Tim 5:8; Rev 14:12 ↩
3. Revelation 2:13 Acts 22:20; Rev 1:5; 11:3; 17:6 ↩
4. Revelation 2:13 Rev 2:10; 12:11; 17:14 ↩
5. Revelation 2:13 Rev 2:9 ↩
6. Revelation 2:14 Rev 2:20 ↩
7. Revelation 2:14 Num 31:16; 2 Pet 2:15 ↩
8. Revelation 2:14 Num 25:1f; Acts 15:29; 1 Cor 10:20; Rev 2:20 ↩
9. Revelation 2:15 Rev 2:6 ↩
10. Revelation 2:16 Rev 2:5 ↩
11. Revelation 2:16 Rev 22:7, 20 ↩
12. Revelation 2:16 2 Thess 2:8; Rev 1:16 ↩
13. Revelation 2:17 Rev 2:7 ↩
14. Revelation 2:17 Rev 2:7 ↩
15. Revelation 2:17 Ex 16:33; John 6:49f ↩
16. Revelation 2:17 Is 56:5; 62:2; 65:15 ↩
17. Revelation 2:17 Rev 14:3; 19:12 ↩
18. Revelation 2:18 Rev 1:11; 2:24 ↩
19. Revelation 2:18 Matt 4:3 ↩
20. Revelation 2:18 Rev 1:14f ↩
21. Revelation 2:18 Lit His eyes ↩
22. Revelation 2:19 Rev 2:2 ↩
23. Revelation 2:19 Or steadfastness ↩
24. Revelation 2:19 Lit last deeds ↩
25. Revelation 2:19 Lit the first ↩
26. Revelation 2:20 Rev 2:14 ↩
27. Revelation 2:20 1 Kin 16:31; 21:25; 2 Kin 9:7, 22, 30 ↩
28. Revelation 2:20 Acts 15:29; 1 Cor 10:20; Rev 2:14 ↩
29. Revelation 2:21 Rom 2:4; 2 Pet 3:9 ↩
30. Revelation 2:21 Rom 2:5; Rev 9:20f; 16:9, 11 ↩
31. Revelation 2:22 Lit into ↩
32. Revelation 2:22 Rev 17:2; 18:9 ↩
33. Revelation 2:22 One early ms reads their ↩
34. Revelation 2:23 Lit death ↩
35. Revelation 2:23 Ps 7:9; 26:2; 139:1; Jer 11:20; 17:10; Matt 16:27; Luke 16:15; Acts 1:24; Rom 8:27 ↩
36. Revelation 2:23 Lit kidneys, i.e. inner man ↩
37. Revelation 2:23 Ps 62:12 ↩
38. Revelation 2:24 Rev 2:18 ↩
39. Revelation 2:24 1 Cor 2:10 ↩
40. Revelation 2:24 Acts 15:28 ↩
41. Revelation 2:25 Rev 3:11 ↩
42. Revelation 2:25 John 21:22 ↩
43. Revelation 2:26 Rev 2:7 ↩
44. Revelation 2:26 Matt 10:22; Heb 3:6 ↩
45. Revelation 2:26 Ps 2:8; Rev 3:21; 20:4 ↩
46. Revelation 2:26 Or Gentiles ↩
47. Revelation 2:27 Lit shepherd ↩
48. Revelation 2:27 Ps 2:9; Rev 12:5; 19:15 ↩
49. Revelation 2:27 Is 30:14; Jer 19:11 ↩
50. Revelation 2:28 1 John 3:2; Rev 22:16 ↩
51. Revelation 2:29 Rev 2:7 ↩

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