Study Desk

and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in your house:

and to the church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

who bore witness to your love before the church: whom you will do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:

I wrote somewhat to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, doesn't receive us.

Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, talking foolishly against us with wicked words. And not content therewith, he doesn't receive the brothers either, and he forbids and casts out of the church those that would.

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, he that walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things says the first and the last, who became dead, and lived [again]:

and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things says he that has the sharp two-edged sword:

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished bronze:

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and you are dead.

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens and none shall shut, and that shuts and none opens:

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: