But you have a few people in Sardis (Sardesin | Σάρδεσιν | dat pl fem) who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
“To the angel of the church in Sardis (Sardesin | Σάρδεσιν | dat pl fem) write: The one who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars has this to say: I know your deeds; that you have a reputation that you are alive, but you are dead.
saying, “Write what you see on a scroll and send it to the seven churches — to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis (Sardeis | Σάρδεις | acc pl fem), Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first was jasper, the second sapphire (sapphiros | σάπφιρος | nom sg fem), the third agate, the fourth emerald,
Let no evil (sapros | σαπρός | nom sg masc) talk come out of your mouth, but only what is useful for building up, as the need arises, that it may benefit those who hear.
“For it is not a good tree that bears bad (sapron | σαπρόν | acc sg masc) fruit, nor again, a bad (sapron | σαπρόν | nom sg neut) tree that bears good fruit,
and when it was full, they pulled it up onto the shore; and they sat down and put the good fish into baskets, but the bad (sapra | σαπρά | acc pl neut) they threw away.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten (sapron | σαπρόν | acc sg neut) and its fruit rotten (sapron | σαπρόν | acc sg masc); for the tree is known by its fruit.