\subsection{Revelation 2}
\VS{1} To the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Ephesus write: These [things] says the [one] holding the seven stars in his right hand, the [one] walking in the midst of the seven lampstands of gold, 
\VS{2} I know your works and your labor and endurance, 
and that you are not able to bear evil [ones], and you tested those saying they 
[are] prophets and are not, and you found them [to be] false, 
\VS{3} and you have 
endurance, and you have borne, on account my name, and are not grown weary. 
\VS{4} But I have against you that you have left your first agape-love. 
\VS{5} Be remembering therefore whence you are fallen, and repent and do 
[your] first works. But if not, I come to you and I will remove your lampstand 
from its place, if you do not repent. 
\VS{6} But this you have, that you 
hate the works of the Nicolatians, which I also hate. 
\VS{7} The [one] having ears, let\fnImperative{} him be hearing what the spirit 
says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}. 
To the [one] gaining victory I will give to eat from the tree of zoe-life\fnZoe{}, 
which is in the paradise of God.

\VS{8} And to the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Smyrna write: 
These [things] says the first and the last, who became dead and zoe-lived\fnZoe{}: 
\VS{9} I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and [I know] the 
slander from those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but [are the] 
synagogue of \Satan. 
\VS{10} Be not fearing what you are [about] to be suffering. 
Behold the devil is [about] to be throwing some [of you] into 
prison, in order that you be tested, and you will have affliction ten days. 
Become trustworthy to death, and I will give to you the crown of zoe-life\fnZoe{}. 
\VS{11} The [one] having ears, let\fnImperative{} him be hearing what the 
spirit says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}. 
The [one] gaining victory will not be injured by the second death.

\VS{12} And to the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Pergamum write: 
These [things] says the [one] having the sharp two-edged broad-sword: 
\VS{13} I know where you dwell, 
[even] where [is] the throne of \Satan, and you hold fast my name, and have not denied 
my faith even in the days [in which] Antipes [was] my trustworthy witness, who was killed 
among you, where \Satan dwells. 
\VS{14} But I have a few [things] against you, that 
you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to be 
throwing [a] stumbling before the sons [of] \Israel, to eat 
[things]-sacrificed-to-idols and to fornicate. 
\VS{15} Thus you also have [those] holding 
the teaching of the Nicolatians likewise. 
\VS{16} Therefore repent, but if 
not, I come to you swiftly and I will fight against them with [the] broad-sword 
of my mouth. 
\VS{17} The [one] having ears let\fnImperative{} him be 
hearing what the spirit says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}. 
To the [one] gaining victory I will 
give to him of the hidden manna, and will give to him [a] white pebble, and 
upon the pebble [a] new name written, which no one knows except the [one] receiving 
it.

\VS{18} And to the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Thyatira, write: 
These [things] says the Son of God, the [one] whose eyes [are] as [a] 
flame of fire, and his feet like to fine-brass: 
\VS{19} I know your work, and agape-love and service and faith and your 
endurance, and your last works [are] greater than the first. 
\VS{20} But I have 
this against you, that you allow the woman Jezebel, the [one] calling herself 
prophetess, and she teaches and deceives my slaves to fornicate and to eat 
[things] sacrificed to idols. 
\VS{21} And I gave to her time in order that she 
repent, and she does not want to repent from her fornication. 
\VS{22} Behold 
I throw her into [a] bed, and those committing adultery with her into great 
affliction, if they do not repent from her works. 
\VS{23} And I will kill 
her children with death, and all the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{} will know that I am the [one] 
searching kidneys\footnote{i.e. ``minds''?} and hearts, and I will give to 
each [of you] according to your works. 
\VS{24} So I say to the rest [of you] in Thyatire, as 
many as do not have this teaching, who have not known the deep [things] of \Satan, as 
they say, I do not throw upon you another burden. 
\VS{25} Nevertheless what 
you have, hold fast until I come. 
\VS{26} And the [one] gaining victory and the 
[one] keeping my works until completion\footnote{or ``perfection''}, I will give 
to him authority over the nations, 
\VS{27} and he will shepherd them with 
[a] rod of iron, as the vessels of clay are shattered, 
\VS{28} as I have 
received from my father, and I will give to him the morning star. 
\VS{29} The [one] having ears let\fnImperative{} him be hearing what the spirit 
says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
