These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits^[b](B) of God and the seven stars.^(C) I know your deeds;^(D) you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.^(E)

⁴ Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.^(A) They will walk with me, dressed in white,^(B) for they are worthy.