but in this thou art right, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

because you have kept my precept about patience, I also will keep you in the time of persecution, which shall happen to all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my father in his throne.

he also having a sharp sickle. and another angel came out from the altar, who presided over the fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, "stretch out thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are full ripe."