New American Standard Bible 2020

Revelation 2:12-25

12“And to the angel of the church in 1Pergamum write:

The One who has 2the sharp two-edged sword says this:

13‘I know where you dwell, where 3Satan’s throne is; and you hold firmly to My name, and did not deny 4My faith even in the days of Antipas, My 5witness, My 6faithful one, who was killed among you, 7where Satan dwells. 14But 8I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the 9teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a 10stumbling block before the sons of Israel, 11to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. 15So you too, have some who in the same way hold to the teaching of the 12Nicolaitans. 16Therefore 13repent; or else 14I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with 15the sword of My mouth. 17 16The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 17To the one who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden 18manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a 19new name written on the stone 20which no one knows except the one who receives it.’

18“And to the angel of the church in 21Thyatira write:

22The Son of God, 23who has 24eyes like a flame of fire, and 25feet like burnished bronze, says this:

19‘26I know your deeds, and your love and faith, and service and 27perseverance, and that your 28deeds of late are greater than 29at first. 20But 30I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman 31Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they 32commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 33I gave her time to repent, and she 34does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. 22Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who 35commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of 36her deeds. 23And I will kill her children with 37plague, and all the churches will know that I am He who 38searches the 39minds and hearts; and 40I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. 24But I say to you, the rest who are in 41Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the 42deep things of Satan, as they call them--I 43place no other burden on you. 25Nevertheless 44what you have, hold firmly 45until I come.

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Notes

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

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