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Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.


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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”


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I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet


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saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”


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I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.


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And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.


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His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.


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His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.


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He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.


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When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,


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and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.


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Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;


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the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.


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“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:


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“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.


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You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.


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


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Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.


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But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.


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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.


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“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:


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“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.


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Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.


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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.


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“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:


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“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.


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But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.


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So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.


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Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.


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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.


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“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:


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“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.


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But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.


Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.


Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

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Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.


Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

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I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.


For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.


Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

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Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.


Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.


Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:


Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

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and I will give him the morning star.


But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.


But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

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“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.


Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

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Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.


These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.


wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.


About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

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He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.


to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.


These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

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“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:


But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.


They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

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Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.


These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

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Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.


But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

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I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.


Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

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He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.


On some have compassion, making a distinction,

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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.


and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things:


Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

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“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.


to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

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So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.


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Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;


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I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.


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As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.


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Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.


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He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.


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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”


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After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”


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Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne


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that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.


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Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.


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Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.


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Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.


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The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.


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The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”


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When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,


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the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,