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Revelation 2:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

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Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

but test them all, retaining what is good

Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Then to the angel of the church at Sardis write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your doings, you have the name of being alive, but you are dead.

God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.

instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

I know your distress and your poverty (but you are rich!): I know how you are being slandered by those who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but a mere synagogue of Satan!).

Still, you have this in your favour: you hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, and I hate them too.

I know your doings, you are neither cold nor hot — would you were either cold or hot!

Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from my presence, you workers of iniquity.'

(He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.)

Now, remember the height from which you have fallen; repent and act as you did at first. If not, I will come to you [very soon] and remove your lamp stand, unless you repent.




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