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Thyatira

Asia · New Testament · 4 verses

A city in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor, known for its trade guilds, including dyeing. The name appears in Acts, Revelation in the King James text.

About Thyatira

A city in the region of Lydia in Asia Minor, known for its trade guilds, including dyeing.

Its place in the story

Thyatira was the hometown of Lydia, the seller of purple whom Paul met in Philippi. It is one of the seven churches of Revelation, commended for love and service but rebuked for tolerating false teaching.

Thyatira in Scripture (KJV)

“And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.”

Acts 16:14 (KJV)

“Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:11 (KJV)

“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;”

Revelation 2:18 (KJV)

“But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.”

Revelation 2:24 (KJV)

Where it leads

To Thyatira the risen Christ commended their love and faith and promised authority to those who endure.

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