{"id":10475,"date":"2021-04-11T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2021-06-06T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T20:44:02","slug":"comparison-chart-of-the-7-churches-in-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10475","title":{"rendered":"Comparison Chart of the 7 Churches in Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d0\/Seven_churches_of_asia.svg\/1200px-Seven_churches_of_asia.svg.png\" alt=\"Seven churches of Asia - Wikipedia\"\/><figcaption>Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ESV:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 2:1 \"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>To the angel of the church in Ephesus<\/strong><\/span> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of him who<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\">holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:2 \"'<strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.<br>Rev 2:3 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:4 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><br><\/span>Rev 2:5 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.<\/span><\/span><br>Rev 2:6 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">.<\/span><\/strong><br>Rev 2:7 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. <span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">To the one who conquers <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.<\/span>'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 2:8 \"And <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the angel of the church in Smyrna<\/span><\/strong> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of the<\/span><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> first and the last, who died and came to life<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:9 \"'<strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:10 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and <\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I will give you the crown of life<\/span><\/em><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><br>Rev 2:11 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.<span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> The one who conquers <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">will not be hurt by the second death.<\/span>'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 2:12 \"And <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the angel of the church in Pergamum<\/span><\/strong> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of him who<\/span><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> has the sharp two-edged sword<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:13 \"<strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:14 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.<br><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff3333\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 2:15 <\/span><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.<\/span><br>Rev 2:16 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Therefore repent. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.<\/span><\/span><br>Rev 2:17 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. <span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">To the one who conquers<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.<\/span>'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 2:18 \"And <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the angel of the church in Thyatira<\/span><\/strong> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of the<\/span><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:19 \"'<strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:20 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.<br>Rev 2:21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 2:22 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">, unless they repent of her works,<br>Rev 2:23 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><br>Rev 2:24 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><br>Rev 2:25 Only hold fast what you have until I come.<br>Rev 2:26 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">to him I will give authority over the nations,<br>Rev 2:27 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.<br>Rev 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.<\/span><br>Rev 2:29 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.<\/strong>'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 3:1 \"And <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the angel of the church in Sardis<\/span><\/strong> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of him who<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\">has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars<\/span><\/strong>. \"'<strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">but you are dead<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><br>Rev 3:2 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God<\/span><\/strong>.<br><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:3 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.<\/span><\/span><br><strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:4 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.<\/span><br><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:5 The one who conquers <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.<\/span><br>Rev 3:6 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.<\/strong>'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 3:7 \"And <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the angel of the church in Philadelphia<\/span><\/strong> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of the<\/span><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 3:8 \"'<strong><span style=\"color:#007ea3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name<\/span><\/strong>.<br>Rev 3:9 <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie<\/span><\/strong>--<strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.<\/span><\/strong><br><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:10 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.<\/span><br><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.<\/span><\/strong><br><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.<\/span><br>Rev 3:13 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.<\/strong>'<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev 3:14 \"And <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to the angel of the church in Laodicea<\/span><\/strong> write: '<strong><span style=\"color:#07a300\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The words of the<\/span><span style=\"color:#a30097\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation<\/span><\/strong>.<br><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:15 \"'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!<br>Rev 3:16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.<\/span><\/strong><br>Rev 3:17 <span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.<\/span><br><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.<\/span><\/strong><br><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.<\/span><br><strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.<\/span><\/strong><br><span style=\"color:#ff00ff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rev 3:21 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.<\/span><br>Rev 3:22 <strong>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.<\/strong>'\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resources:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/lifehopeandtruth.com\/prophecy\/revelation\/seven-churches-of-revelation\/pergamos\/\">https:\/\/lifehopeandtruth.com\/prophecy\/revelation\/seven-churches-of-revelation\/pergamos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESV: Rev 2:1 \"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.Rev 2:2 \"'I know your works, your toil and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=10475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-projects","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}