To the Church in Thyatira

(Acts 16:11–15)

18 To [the] angel of the church in Thyatira write: These [are] the words of the Son of God, whose eyes [are] like a blazing fire and [whose] feet [are] like polished bronze.

19 I know your deeds—your love, [your] faith, [your] service, [your] perseverance—and your latest deeds [are] greater than [your] first.

20 But I have [this] against you You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21 Even [though] I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling

22 Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her [will suffer] great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. 23 Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the [One who] searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

24 But I say to [the] rest of you in Thyatira, who {do} not hold to [her] teaching [and] {have} not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you 25 than to hold fast to what you have until I come. 26 And to the [one who] overcomes and continues {in} My work until [the] end, I will give authority over the nations. 27 He will rule them with an iron scepter [and] shatter [them] like pottery[fn]—just as I have received [authority] from My Father. 28 And I will give him the morning star.

29 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.[’’]