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15 I know what you do, that you are not hot or cold. I wish that you were hot or cold!
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I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
16 But because you are lukewarm -- neither hot, nor cold -- I am ready to spit you out of my mouth.
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So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
17 You say, 'I am rich, and I have become wealthy and do not need anything.' But you do not know that you are really miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
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You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
18 I advise you to buy from me gold made pure in fire so you can be truly rich. Buy from me white clothes so you can be clothed and so you can cover your shameful nakedness. Buy from me medicine to put on your eyes so you can truly see.
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I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
19 "I correct and punish those whom I love. So be eager to do right, and change your hearts and lives.
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Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you will eat with me.
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Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
21 "Those who win the victory will sit with me on my throne in the same way that I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.
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To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
22 Everyone who has ears should listen 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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