Revelation 3

¹“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: ‘These things says the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works—you have a reputation for being alive, but you are a corpse. ²Become alert and wake up! Strengthen what remains that was about to die, for I have not found your works completed in the sight of my God. ³Remember, then, how you received and heard; keep it and change your mind. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will have no way of knowing at what hour I will come upon you. ⁴But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy. ⁵The one who conquers will be clothed this way in white garments, and I will never erase his name from the scroll of life, but I will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the assemblies.’

⁷And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: ‘These things says the Holy One, the Real One, the one who holds the key of David, the one who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens: ⁸I know your works—look, I have placed before you an opened door that no one is able to shut—because you have little power, yet you kept my word and did not deny my name. ⁹Look, I will give you those from the synagogue of the Satan, those who claim to be Judeans and are not, but are lying—look, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will know that I have loved you. ¹⁰Because you kept my word of endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to test those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹I am coming quickly; hold onto what you have, so that no one takes your victor’s crown. ¹²The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never again depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. ¹³Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the assemblies.’

¹⁴And to the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: ‘These things says the Amen, the faithful and real witness, the source of God’s creation: ¹⁵I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷For you say, ‘“I am rich and have grown wealthy and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are the wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked one. ¹⁸I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness might not be exposed, and eye-salve to rub on your eyes so that you may see. ¹⁹As many as I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous, therefore, and change your mind. ²⁰Look! I have stood at the door and I am knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me. ²¹The one who conquers, I will grant to him to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and sat with my Father on his throne. ²²Let the one who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the assemblies.’”