In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday.

the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.

But I hold it against you that you do not love as you did at first.

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.

So you also have among you some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

But I hold it against you that you tolerate that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be inspired and who is misleading my slaves and teaching them to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.

But to the rest of you at Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching and have not learned the "deep things" of Satan, as they call them??o you I say, I have no fresh burden to lay on you,

but keep hold of what you have, until I come.

I am coming soon. Keep hold of what you have, so that no one may deprive you of your crown.

Then the four angels who were held in readiness for that hour and day and month and year were let loose to kill one third of mankind.

(See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who keeps awake, and keeps hold of his clothes, so that he will not have to go naked and be put to shame!)