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"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, 1who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
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2"'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
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But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman 3Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants4to practice sexual immorality and 5to eat food sacrificed to idols.
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I gave her time to repent, but 6she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
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Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
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and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he 7who searches mind and heart, and 8I will give to each of you according to your works.
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But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call 9the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I 10do not lay on you any other burden.
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Only hold fast 11what you have until I come.
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12The one who conquers and who keeps my works 13until the end, 14to him I will give authority over the nations,
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and 15he will 16rule them with a rod of iron, 17as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.
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And I will give him 18the morning star.
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19He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'