3. You have patience and have suffered troubles for my name and have not given up.
4. “But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning.
5. So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first. If you do not change, I will come to you and will take away your lampstand from its place.
6. But there is something you do that is right: You hate what the Nicolaitans do, as much as I.
7. “Every person who has ears should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life, which is in the garden of God.
8. “Write this to the angel of the church in Smyrna:“The One who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again, says this:
9. I know your troubles and that you are poor, but really you are rich! I know the bad things some people say about you. They say they are Jews, but they are not true Jews. They are a synagogue that belongs to Satan.