New American Standard Bible 2020

Revelation 2:13-29

13‘I know where you dwell, where 1Satan’s throne is; and you hold firmly to 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 some there who hold the 7teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a 8stumbling block before the sons of Israel, 9to 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 10Nicolaitans. 16Therefore 11repent; or else 12I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with 13the sword of My mouth. 17 14The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 15To the one who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden 16manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a 17new name written on the stone 18which no one knows except the one who receives it.’

18“And to the angel of the church in 19Thyatira write:

20The Son of God, 21who has 22eyes like a flame of fire, and 23feet like burnished bronze, says this:

19‘24I know your deeds, and your love and faith, and service and 25perseverance, and that your 26deeds of late are greater than 27at first. 20But 28I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman 29Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they 30commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 31I gave her time to repent, and she 32does not want to repent of her sexual immorality. 22Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who 33commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of 34her deeds. 23And I will kill her children with 35plague, and all the churches will know that I am He who 36searches the 37minds and hearts; and 38I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. 24But I say to you, the rest who are in 39Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the 40deep things of Satan, as they call them--I 41place no other burden on you. 25Nevertheless 42what you have, hold firmly 43until I come. 26 44The one who overcomes, and the one who keeps My deeds 45until the end, 46I will give him authority over the 47nations; 27and he shall 48 49rule them with a rod of iron, 50as the vessels of the potter are shattered, as I also have received authority from My Father; 28and I will give him 51the morning star. 29 52The one 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 I.e., a temptation to sin ↩
9. Revelation 2:14 Num 25:1f; Acts 15:29; 1 Cor 10:20; Rev 2:20 ↩
10. Revelation 2:15 Rev 2:6 ↩
11. Revelation 2:16 Rev 2:5 ↩
12. Revelation 2:16 Rev 22:7, 20 ↩
13. Revelation 2:16 2 Thess 2:8; Rev 1:16 ↩
14. Revelation 2:17 Rev 2:7 ↩
15. Revelation 2:17 Rev 2:7 ↩
16. Revelation 2:17 Ex 16:33; John 6:49f ↩
17. Revelation 2:17 Is 56:5; 62:2; 65:15 ↩
18. Revelation 2:17 Rev 14:3; 19:12 ↩
19. Revelation 2:18 Rev 1:11; 2:24 ↩
20. Revelation 2:18 Matt 4:3 ↩
21. Revelation 2:18 Rev 1:14f ↩
22. Revelation 2:18 Lit His eyes ↩
23. Revelation 2:18 Lit His feet ↩
24. Revelation 2:19 Rev 2:2 ↩
25. Revelation 2:19 Or steadfastness ↩
26. Revelation 2:19 Lit last deeds ↩
27. Revelation 2:19 Lit the first ↩
28. Revelation 2:20 Rev 2:14 ↩
29. Revelation 2:20 1 Kin 16:31; 21:25; 2 Kin 9:7, 22, 30 ↩
30. Revelation 2:20 Acts 15:29; 1 Cor 10:20; Rev 2:14 ↩
31. Revelation 2:21 Rom 2:4; 2 Pet 3:9 ↩
32. Revelation 2:21 Rom 2:5; Rev 9:20f; 16:9, 11 ↩
33. Revelation 2:22 Rev 17:2; 18:9 ↩
34. Revelation 2:22 One early ms their ↩
35. Revelation 2:23 Lit death; i.e., a particular kind of death ↩
36. 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 ↩
37. Revelation 2:23 Lit kidneys; i.e., inner man ↩
38. Revelation 2:23 Ps 62:12 ↩
39. Revelation 2:24 Rev 2:18 ↩
40. Revelation 2:24 1 Cor 2:10 ↩
41. Revelation 2:24 Acts 15:28 ↩
42. Revelation 2:25 Rev 3:11 ↩
43. Revelation 2:25 John 21:22 ↩
44. Revelation 2:26 Rev 2:7 ↩
45. Revelation 2:26 Matt 10:22; Heb 3:6 ↩
46. Revelation 2:26 Ps 2:8; Rev 3:21; 20:4 ↩
47. Revelation 2:26 Or Gentiles ↩
48. Revelation 2:27 Lit shepherd ↩
49. Revelation 2:27 Ps 2:9; Rev 12:5; 19:15 ↩
50. Revelation 2:27 Is 30:14; Jer 19:11 ↩
51. Revelation 2:28 1 John 3:2; Rev 22:16 ↩
52. Revelation 2:29 Rev 2:7 ↩

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