OrthJBC - Revelation of John - 3

3:1  And to the malach of the Kehillah in Sardis, write: these things says the One having the sheva ruchot of Hashem and the shevat hakokhavim: I have da'as of your ma'asim, that nominally you are Chai but you are niftar.

3:2  Be shomer and regarding the things remaining and the things on the point of mavet, be chazakim (strong ones). For, I have not found your ma'asim mitzvot having been shleimim before Elohai.

3:3  Therefore, let there be zikaron (remembrance) of what has been handed over to you and what you heard, and be shomer and make teshuva. Therefore, if you are not shomer, I will come as a ganav, and never would you have da'as at what sha'ah (hour, time) I will come upon you.

3:4  But you have a few shmot (names) in Sardis which did not soil their kaftans. It is they that will walk with me in lavan, wearing a kittel, because they are walking worthily.

3:5  The one who wins the nitzachon (victory), in similar manner, will be clothed in lavan (white), and never will I blot out the baal shem tov of him from the Sefer Chayyim. And I will make hoda'ah (confession) the shem of him before Elohim Avi and before the malachim of him.

3:6  The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. THE IGGERET HAKODESH TO THE KEHILLAH AT PHILADELPHIA

3:7  And to the malach of the Kehillah in Philadelphia, write: these things says HaKadosh, HaAmiti, the One having the mafte'ach (key) of Dovid, the One opening and no one will shut, the one shutting and no one opens: [Yeshayah 22:22]

3:8  "I have da'as of your ma'asim. Hinei! I have placed in front of you a delet (door), having been opened, which no one is able to shut. Because you have a little ko'ach (power) and have been shomer over the dvar of me

3:9  and did not make hakhchashah (denial) of ha-Shem of me. Hinei! I may make some of the Shul [deluded by] Hasatan, the ones declaring themselves to be Bnei Berit, and are not but speak sheker; hinei! I will make them come and prostrate themselves before your feet and then they will have da'as that I have ahavah for you. [Yeshayah 49:23; 43:4]

3:10  Because you were shomer over my dvar of savlanut (patient endurance), I will also be shomer over you, guarding you from the sha'at hanisayon (hour of trial) about to come upon the Olam Hazeh, to try all the ones of the inhabited world, all the ones dwelling upon the earth.

3:11  I am coming quickly; hold fast to what you have, that no one takes the atarah of you.

3:12  The one who wins the nitzachon (victory) I will make an ammud (pillar) in the Beis Hamikdash of Elohai and never may he go out of it [Tehillim 23:6] and I will write upon him ha-Shem of Elohai and ha-Shem of the Ir Hakodesh of Elohai--the Yerushalayim HaChadasha descending down out of Shomayim from Elohai--and ha-Shem HeChadash of me. [Yechezkel 48:35]

3:13  The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot. THE IGGERET HAKODESH TO THE KEHILLAH AT LAODICEA

3:14  And to the malach of the Kehillah in Laodicea, write: these things says the Omein, the Eidus Hane'eman who is also HaEmes, [Mishle 8:22]

3:15  the Reshit of the Bri'at Hashem: "I have da'as of your ma'asim, that you are neither kar (cold) nor kham (hot). Would that you were kar or kham!

3:16  But because you are posher (lukewarm) and neither kham nor kar, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

3:17  Because you say, I am ashir (rich) and have become wealthy and in nothing am I nitzrach (needy), and you do not have da'as that you are the one wretched and pitiful and poor and blind and naked, [Hoshea 12:8]

3:18  I counsel you to buy from me gold having been purified by aish (fire) that you may be ashir, and a kittel that you may be clothed in lavan and that the bushah of your nakedness not be made known, and salve to rub on the eynayim (eyes) of you that you may see.

3:19  Those for whom I have ahavah I reprove and discipline. Be kham (hot), therefore, in kinat Hashem (zeal for G-d) and make teshuva. [Devarim 8:5; Mishle 3:12]

3:20  Hinei! I have stood at the delet (door) dofek (knocking, Shir HaShirim 5:2); if anyone hears my kol and opens the delet, indeed I will come in to him and we, the two of us, will dine together at the Beit HaYayin [Shir HaShirim 2:4].

3:21  The one who wins the nitzachon (victory), I will give to him to sit with me on the kisseh of me, as I also won the nitzachon and sat with Elohim Avi on the kisseh of him.

3:22  The one having an ear let him hear what the Ruach Hakodesh says to the Kehillot.