¹ And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things says he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name that you live 2198>, and are dead. ² Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before God. ³ Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you will not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come on you. ⁴ You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they will walk with me in white: for they are worthy. ⁵ He that overcomes, the same will be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶ He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens; ⁸ I know your works: see, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name. ⁹ See, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; See, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. ¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which will come+ on all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth. ¹¹ See, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown. ¹² Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go no more out: and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which comes down+ out of heaven from my God: and I will write on him my new name. ¹³ He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ¹⁴ And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; ¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you wert cold or hot. ¹⁶ So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. ¹⁹ As many as+ I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. ²⁰ See, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. ²¹ To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. ²² He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.