Bible verse
I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.
Revelation 2:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from Revelation 2.
15 In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
16 Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.
17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
18 To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.
19 I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latter deeds are greater than your first.
20 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.
21 Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
22 Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.
23 Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
KJV
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last [to be] more than the first.
ASV
I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.
ERV
I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.
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