I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance. I know that you cannot bear evil men, but you have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and have found them to be false;

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I will not lay upon you any other burden;

I looked, and behold, a pale horse; and its rider's name was Death, and Hades was following him. And they were given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.

They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man.

And the four angels, who had been held ready for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them.

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.