Letter to Ephesus: Faithfulness and the Call to Repent
Revelation 2:1-7
1To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: The one who grasps the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says this.2I know your works and your labor and your perseverance, and that you are not able to bear evil ones, and you tested those who call themselves apostles and they are not, and you found them false.3And you have perseverance and have borne up for my name, and you have not grown weary.4But I have against you that you have left your first love.5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works; but if not, I come to you and will move your lampstand out from its place, unless you repent.6But you have this, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.7The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one who conquers I will give to him to eat from the wood of life, which is in the paradise of God.