Backsliders: Churches of Asia

For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.

But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! …