3 and you have been bearing up and have endurance, and have laboured for My Name’s sake and have not become weary.
4 “But I hold this against you, that you have left your first love.
5 “So remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works, or else I shall come to you speedily and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
6 “Yet this you have, that you hate the works of the Nikolaites, which I also hate.
7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of Elohim.” ’
8 “And to the messenger of the assembly in Smurna write, ‘This says the First and the Last, who became dead, and came to life:
9 “I know your works, and pressure, and poverty – yet you are rich – and the blasphemy of those who say they are Yehuḏim and are not, but are a congregation of Satan.