Revelation 2:18-29

To the Church in Thyatira

18 “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 know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.
20 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 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
22 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 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 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 except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—
27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[a] —just as I have received authority from my Father.
28 I will also give that one the morning star.
29 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Cross References 20

  • 1. ver 24; Acts 16:14; Revelation 1:11
  • 2. S Matthew 4:3
  • 3. S Revelation 1:14,15
  • 4. S ver 2
  • 5. 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 9:7
  • 6. ver 14; S Acts 15:20
  • 7. Romans 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9
  • 8. Romans 2:5; Revelation 9:20; Revelation 16:9,11
  • 9. Revelation 17:2; Revelation 18:9
  • 10. 1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Kings 8:39; Ps 139:1,2,23; Proverbs 21:2; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 11:20; Luke 16:15; Acts 1:24; Romans 8:27; 1 Thessalonians 2:4
  • 11. S Matthew 16:27
  • 12. Acts 15:28
  • 13. Revelation 3:11
  • 14. S Matthew 16:27
  • 15. S John 16:33
  • 16. Matthew 10:22
  • 17. Psalms 2:8; Revelation 3:21
  • 18. Revelation 12:5; Revelation 19:15
  • 19. Revelation 22:16
  • 20. S ver 7

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