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: