Revelation 3 - Easy To Read Version

¹ “Write this to the angel of the church in Sardis:

² Wake up! Make yourselves stronger while you still have something left. Make yourselves stronger before it dies completely. I find that the things you do are not good enough for my God.

³ So don’t forget what you have received and heard. Obey it. Change your hearts and lives! You must wake up, or I will come to you \{and surprise you\} like a thief. You will not know when I will come.

⁴ But you have a few people \{in your group\} there in Sardis who have kept themselves clean. Those people will walk with me. They will wear white clothes, because they are worthy.

⁵ Every person that wins the victory will be dressed in white clothes like these people. I will not take away that person’s name from the book of life. I will say that he belongs to me. I will say this before my Father and before his angels.

⁶ Every person that hears these things should listen to what the Spirit {\cf2\super [26]} says to the churches.

⁷ “Write this to the angel of the church in Philadelphia:

⁸ I know the things you do. I have put an open door before you. No person can close it. I know that you are weak. But you have followed my teaching. You were not afraid to speak my name.

⁹ Listen! There is a synagogue (group) that belongs to Satan (the devil). Those people say they are Jews, but they are liars. Those people are not \{true\} Jews. I will make those people come before you and bow at your feet. They will know that you are the people I have loved.

¹⁰ You followed my command to endure patiently. So I will keep you from the time of trouble that will come to the whole world. This trouble will test the people who live on the earth.

¹¹ “I am coming soon. Continue the way you are now. Then no person will take away your crown (reward).

¹² The person that wins the victory will be a pillar {\cf2\super [28]} in the temple {\cf2\super [29]} of my God. I will do that for the person that wins the victory. That person will never again have to leave God’s temple. I will write the name of my God on that person. And I will write the name of the city of my God on that person. That city is the new Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [30]} That city is coming down out of heaven from my God. I will also write my new name on that person.

¹³ Every person that hears these things should listen to what the Spirit {\cf2\super [31]} says to the churches.

¹⁴ “Write this to the angel of the church in Laodicea:

¹⁵ I know what you do. You are not hot or cold. I wish that you were hot or cold!

¹⁶ But you are only warm—not hot, not cold. So I am ready to spit you out of my mouth.

¹⁷ You say you are rich. You think you have become wealthy and don’t need a thing. But you don’t know that you are really terrible, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

¹⁸ I advise you to buy gold from me—gold made pure in fire. Then you can be truly rich. I tell you this: Buy clothes that are white. Then you can cover your shameful nakedness. I also tell you to buy medicine to put on your eyes. Then you can truly see.

¹⁹ “I correct and punish those people that I love. So start trying hard! Change your hearts and lives!

²⁰ Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If a person hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person. And that person will eat with me.

²¹ “I will let every person that wins the victory sit with me on my throne. It was the same with me. I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.

²² Every person that hears these things should listen to what the Spirit {\cf2\super [33]} says to the churches.”