3 You are patient, you have suffered for my sake, and you have not given up.
4 But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first.
5 Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place.
6 But this is what you have in your favour: you hate what the Nicolaitans do, as much as I do.
7 “If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! “To those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God.
8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: “This is the message from the one who is the first and the last, who died and lived again.
9 I know your troubles; I know that you are poor — but really you are rich! I know the evil things said against you by those who claim to be Jews but are not; they are a group that belongs to Satan!