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\subsection{Revelation 2}
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\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,
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\VS{2} I know your works and your labor and endurance,
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and that you are not able to bear evil [ones], and you tested those saying they
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[are] prophets and are not, and you found them [to be] false,
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\VS{3} and you have
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endurance, and you have borne, on account my name, and are not grown weary.
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\VS{4} But I have against you that you have left your first agape-love.
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\VS{5} Be remembering therefore whence you are fallen, and repent and do
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[your] first works. But if not, I come to you and I will remove your lampstand
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from its place, if you do not repent.
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\VS{6} But this you have, that you
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hate the works of the Nicolatians, which I also hate.
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\VS{7} The [one] having ears, let\fnImperative{} him be hearing what the spirit
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says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
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To the [one] gaining victory I will give to eat from the tree of zoe-life\fnZoe{},
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which is in the paradise of God.
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\VS{8} And to the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Smyrna write:
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These [things] says the first and the last, who became dead and zoe-lived\fnZoe{}:
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\VS{9} I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and [I know] the
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slander from those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but [are the]
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synagogue of \Satan.
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\VS{10} Be not fearing what you are [about] to be suffering.
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Behold the devil is [about] to be throwing some [of you] into
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prison, in order that you be tested, and you will have affliction ten days.
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Become trustworthy to death, and I will give to you the crown of zoe-life\fnZoe{}.
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\VS{11} The [one] having ears, let\fnImperative{} him be hearing what the
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spirit says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
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The [one] gaining victory will not be injured by the second death.
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\VS{12} And to the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Pergamum write:
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These [things] says the [one] having the sharp two-edged broad-sword:
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\VS{13} I know where you dwell,
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[even] where [is] the throne of \Satan, and you hold fast my name, and have not denied
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my faith even in the days [in which] Antipes [was] my trustworthy witness, who was killed
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among you, where \Satan dwells.
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\VS{14} But I have a few [things] against you, that
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you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to be
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throwing [a] stumbling before the sons [of] \Israel, to eat
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[things]-sacrificed-to-idols and to fornicate.
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\VS{15} Thus you also have [those] holding
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the teaching of the Nicolatians likewise.
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\VS{16} Therefore repent, but if
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not, I come to you swiftly and I will fight against them with [the] broad-sword
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of my mouth.
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\VS{17} The [one] having ears let\fnImperative{} him be
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hearing what the spirit says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
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To the [one] gaining victory I will
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give to him of the hidden manna, and will give to him [a] white pebble, and
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upon the pebble [a] new name written, which no one knows except the [one] receiving
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it.
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\VS{18} And to the angel of the assembly\fnEkklhsia{} in Thyatira, write:
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These [things] says the Son of God, the [one] whose eyes [are] as [a]
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flame of fire, and his feet like to fine-brass:
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\VS{19} I know your work, and agape-love and service and faith and your
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endurance, and your last works [are] greater than the first.
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\VS{20} But I have
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this against you, that you allow the woman Jezebel, the [one] calling herself
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prophetess, and she teaches and deceives my slaves to fornicate and to eat
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[things] sacrificed to idols.
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\VS{21} And I gave to her time in order that she
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repent, and she does not want to repent from her fornication.
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\VS{22} Behold
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I throw her into [a] bed, and those committing adultery with her into great
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affliction, if they do not repent from her works.
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\VS{23} And I will kill
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her children with death, and all the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{} will know that I am the [one]
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searching kidneys\footnote{i.e. ``minds''?} and hearts, and I will give to
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each [of you] according to your works.
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\VS{24} So I say to the rest [of you] in Thyatire, as
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many as do not have this teaching, who have not known the deep [things] of \Satan, as
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they say, I do not throw upon you another burden.
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\VS{25} Nevertheless what
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you have, hold fast until I come.
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\VS{26} And the [one] gaining victory and the
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[one] keeping my works until completion\footnote{or ``perfection''}, I will give
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to him authority over the nations,
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\VS{27} and he will shepherd them with
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[a] rod of iron, as the vessels of clay are shattered,
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\VS{28} as I have
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received from my father, and I will give to him the morning star.
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\VS{29} The [one] having ears let\fnImperative{} him be hearing what the spirit
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says to the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
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