2:18 “To 19 the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following: 20
“This is the solemn pronouncement of 21 the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame 22 and whose feet are like polished bronze: 23 2:19 ‘I know your deeds: your love, faith, 24 service, and steadfast endurance. 25 In fact, 26 your more recent deeds are greater than your earlier ones. 2:20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that 27 woman 28 Jezebel, 29 who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives 30 my servants 31 to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 32 2:21 I 33 have given her time to repent, but 34 she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality. 2:22 Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, 35 and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, 36 unless they repent of her deeds. 2:23 Furthermore, I will strike her followers 37 with a deadly disease, 38 and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay 39 each one of you 40 what your deeds deserve. 41 2:24 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching 42 (who have not learned the so-called “deep secrets 43 of Satan”), to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you. 2:25 However, hold on to what you have until I come. 2:26 And to the one who conquers 44 and who continues in 45 my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations 46 –
2:27 he 47 will rule 48 them with an iron rod 49
and like clay jars he will break them to pieces, 50
2:28 just as I have received the right to rule 51 from my Father – and I will give him the morning star. 52 2:29 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’