nfirm the rest who are about to die. For I have not found
your works perfect before my God. [3:3] Remember therefore how you have
received and heard, and watch, and change your minds. If therefore you
do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what
hour I will come upon you. [3:4]But you have a few names in Sardis who
have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white,
for they are worthy. [3:5]He that conquers shall be clothed in white
robes, and I will not obliterate his name from the book of life, and I
will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. [3:6]Let
him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
6 [3:7]And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These
things says the Holy One, the True, he that has the key of David, he
that opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open,
[3:8]I know your works; behold, I have placed before you an opened
door, which no man can shut; because you have a little power, and kept
my word, and did not deny my name. [3:9]Behold, I will make those of
the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but lie,
behold, I will make them come and worship at your feet, and they shall
know that I have loved you. [3:10]Because you have kept the word of my
patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which is to come
on all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth. [3:11]I come
quickly; keep what you have, that no man may take your crown.
[3:12]Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,
and he shall go out of it no more, and I will write on him the name of
my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which
comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name. [3:13]Let him
that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
7 [3:14]And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write, These things
says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the
creation of God, [3:15]I know your works, that you are neither cold nor
hot. I wish you were cold or hot. [3:16]Because therefore you are
warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth.
[3:17]For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of
nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor,
and blind, and naked. [3:18]I advise you to buy of me gold purified in
the fire that you may be rich, and white robes that you m
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