Revelation 2:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶ But there is one thing you are doing right. You hate what the Nicolaitans^[a] are doing, and so do I.

^7 (A) If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will let everyone who wins the victory eat from the life-giving tree in God's wonderful garden.

The Letter to Smyrna

^8 (B) This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:

I am the first and the last. I died, but now I am alive! Listen to what I say.