Daily Bread

These are the words of the Son of God,^(B) whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.^{(C) 19} I know your deeds,^(D) 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,^(E) who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.^{(F) 21} I have given her time^(G) to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.^{(H) 22} So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery^(I) 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,^(J) and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.^(K)

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,^{(L) 25} except to hold on to what you have^(M) until I come.’^(N)

²⁶ To the one who is victorious^(O) and does my will to the end,^(P) I will give authority over the nations^(Q)— ²⁷ that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter^(R) and will dash them to pieces like pottery’^[a](S)—just as I have received authority from my Father. ²⁸ I will also give that one the morning star.^{(T) 29} Whoever has ears, let them hear^(U) what the Spirit says to the churches.