3. You also possess endurance and have tolerated many things because of My name and have not grown weary.
4. But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.
5. Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent.
6. Yet you do have this: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7. “Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in God’s paradise.
8. “Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says: