MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Sardis:
He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: I know your works, that you have a name, that you live; and you are dead.
3:2 Become watchful and establish the rest of the things, which are about to be cast away; for* I have not found your works fulfilled before my God.
3:3 Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. Therefore if you do not watch, I will come upon you like a thief and you may never* know what hour I will come upon you.
3:4 But you have a few names in Sardis who did not defile their garments and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.
3:5 He who is overcoming this, he will be dressed in white garments, and I will never* wipe-away his name out of the Book of Life and I will confess his name before my Father and before his messengers.
3:6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations*.

3:7 And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Philadelphia:
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will lock and who locks and no one opens says these things:
3:8 I know your works (behold, I have given you an opened door which is before you, which no one can lock), that you have little power and you have kept my word and did not deny my name.
3:9 Behold, I give them from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who say they are Jews and they are not, but are lying. Behold, I will make* them that* they should come and should worship before your feet and should know that I have loved* you.
3:10 Because you kept the word of my endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole inhabited-earth, to test those who are dwelling upon the earth.
3:11 I am coming shortly. Hold-fast what you have, in order that no one may take your crown.
3:12 He who is overcoming, I will make* him a pillar in the temple of my God and he may never* go outside any more and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God and my own new name.
3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations*.

3:14 And write to the messenger of the congregation* in Laodicea:
The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, says these things:
3:15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish-that you might be cold or hot.
3:16 So because you are lukewarm and not hot nor cold, I am about to puke you out of my mouth.
3:17 Because you say, I am rich and have been enriched and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are the miserable and the pitiful and are poor and blind and naked.
3:18 I am counseling you to buy gold from me, refined from fire, in order that you may be enriched, and with white garments, that* you may dress yourself and that* the shame of your nakedness may not be made manifest, and that* you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see.
3:19 As many as I may love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and if he opens the door, I will go in to him and will dine with him and he with me.
3:21 He who is overcoming, I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father in his throne.
3:22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations*.