I will make them come and fall at your feet and know for certain
that I have loved you.
003:010 Because in spite of suffering you have guarded My word,
I in turn will guard you from that hour of trial which is soon
coming upon the whole world, to put to the test the inhabitants
of the earth.
003:011 I am coming quickly: cling to that which you already possess,
so that your wreath of victory be not taken away from you.
003:012 "`He who overcomes--I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary
of My God, and he shall never go out from it again.
And I will write on him the name of My God, and the name
of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which is to come
down out of Heaven from My God, and My own new name.
003:013 Let all who have ears give heed to what the Spirit is saying
to the Churches.'
003:014 "And to the minister of the Church at Laodicea write as follows:
"`This is what the Amen says--the true and faithful witness,
the Beginning and Lord of God's Creation.
003:015 I know your doings--you are neither cold nor hot; I would
that you were cold or hot!
003:016 Accordingly, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold,
before long I will vomit you out of My mouth.
003:017 You say, I am rich, and have wealth stored up, and I stand in need
of nothing; and you do not know that if there is a wretched
creature it is *you*--pitiable, poor, blind, naked.
003:018 Therefore I counsel you to buy of Me gold refined in the fire
that you may become rich, and white robes to put on,
so as to hide your shameful nakedness, and eye-salve to anoint
your eyes with, so that you may be able to see.
003:019 All whom I hold dear, I reprove and chastise; therefore be