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Revelation 3

Message to Sardis

¹And to the angel of the church in Sardis, write:

These are the things that the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says. "I know your works, that you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead. ²Be watchful, and strengthen those things that remain, but which are about to die out, for I have not found your works perfect before my God. ³So remember how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. So if you don't keep watch, I will come as a thief, and you will not have any idea what hour I'm coming upon you. ⁴But you do ahve a few names in Sardis which have not soiled their clothes, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy. ⁵The one who overcomes will thus be clothed in white, and I will certainly never whipe his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶Let the one who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

Message to Philadelphia

⁷And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write:
The holy and genuine person says these things
the one who has the key of David
the one who opens and nobody can close
and closes and nobody can open.

⁸"I know your works. Look! I have put before you an open door which nobody can close, because you ahve a little strength, yet you have kept my word, and you have not denied my name. ⁹Look! I'm giving those of the synagogue of Satan, those who call themselves Jews, but are not (they're liars)--look, I will make them come and worship before your feet, and they will know that I love you. ¹⁰Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing taht is about to come on all the inhabited world, for the purpose of testing those that live on the earth. ¹¹I am coming quickly! Hold onto what you have, so that nobody takes your crown. ¹²I will make the one who overcomes a pillar in the sanctuary of my God and he will never again go outside, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that is coming down out of heaven from my God and also my new name. ¹³Let the one who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churhces."

Message to Laodicea

¹⁴And to the angel of the church in Laodicea, write:
These are the things taht the Amen, the faithful and genuine witness, the beginning fo the creation of God says. ¹⁵"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. ¹⁶Thus, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷Because you say, 'I am rich and enriched, and I don't need anything, and you don't know that you are wretched and pitiful an dpoor and blind and naked. ¹⁸I advise you to buy from me gold that has been tested in the fire, so you may be rich, and white garments so that you might be clothed, and the shame of your nakedness might not appear, and anoint your eyes with ointment so you might see. ¹⁹As for me, I rebuke and discipline those that I love. So be zealouos and repent! ²⁰Look! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will have dinner with him and he with me. ²¹I will allow the one who overcomes to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame and have sat down with my Father on his throne. ²²Let the one who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

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