Holman Christian Standard Bible

Revelation 2:3-9 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

3. You also possess endurance and have tolerated many things because of My name and have not grown weary.

4. But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.

5. Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent.

6. Yet you do have this: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

7. “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in God’s paradise.

8. “Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says:

9. I know your affliction and poverty, yet you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.