1. “To the messenger of the assembly of Ephesos write, ‘He who is holding the seven stars in His right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says this:
2. “I know your works, and your labour, and your endurance, and that you are not able to bear evil ones, and have tried those who say they are emissaries and are not, and have found them false;
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.