The Bible in Basic English BBE
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18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira say: These things says the Son of God, whose eyes are like a flame of fire, and his feet like polished brass:
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“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
19 I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.
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I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.
20 But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
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Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.
21 And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.
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I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
22 See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.
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So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
23 And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
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I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
24 But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.
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Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you,
25 But what you have, keep safe till I come.
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except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
26 He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations,
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To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—
27 And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:
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that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father.
28 And I will give him the morning star.
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I will also give that one the morning star.
29 He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.
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Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
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