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.