New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 2:2-6

2‘1I know your deeds and your toil and 2perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you 3put to the test those who call themselves 4apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

3and you have 5perseverance and have endured 6for My name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

4But I have this against you, that you have 7left your first love.

5Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and 8repent and 9do the 10deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your 11lampstand out of its place--unless you repent.

6Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the 12Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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Notes

1. Revelation 2:2 Rev 2:19; 3:1, 8, 15 ↩
2. Revelation 2:2 Or steadfastness ↩
3. Revelation 2:2 John 6:6; 1 John 4:1 ↩
4. Revelation 2:2 2 Cor 11:13 ↩
5. Revelation 2:3 V 2, note 1 ↩
6. Revelation 2:3 John 15:21 ↩
7. Revelation 2:4 Jer 2:2; Matt 24:12 ↩
8. Revelation 2:5 Rev 2:16, 22; 3:3, 19 ↩
9. Revelation 2:5 Heb 10:32; Rev 2:2 ↩
10. Revelation 2:5 Lit first deeds ↩
11. Revelation 2:5 Matt 5:14ff; Phil 2:15; Rev 1:20 ↩
12. Revelation 2:6 Rev 2:15 ↩

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