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Ephesus

Rev 2:1–7

“your toil and patient endurance”; “you cannot bear with those who are evil”; “you have attested those who have called themselves apostles”

“You have abandoned your first love.”

Smyrna

Rev 2:8–11

“your tribulation, your poverty (but you are rich), and your slander”

Pergamum

Rev 2:12–17

“you hold fast to my name”; “you did not deny my faith”

“some there hold to the teaching of Balaam [and] the Nicolaitans”

Thyatira

Rev 2:18–29

“your love, faith, service, and patient endurance”; “your latter works exceed the first”

“you tolerate the woman Jezebel”

Sardis

Rev 3:1–6

“[some] have not soiled their garments”

“you have the name ‘alive’, but you are dead”; “I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God”

Philadelphia

Rev 3:7–13

“you have kept my word”; “you have not denied my name”; “you have kept my word about patient endurance”

Laodicea

Rev 3:14–22

“you are neither hot or cold [i.e., not useful]”; “you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked”

Brendon R. Witte, “Seven Churches,” ed. John D. Barry et al., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).