“I know all the things you do, and that you have a reputation for being alive—but you are dead.
Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions (deeds)....... do not meet...... the requirements of my God.
Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief.
“Yet there are some in the church in Sardis who have not soiled their (given - white) clothes with evil. They will.....(because they did) walk with Me..... in white, for THEY are WORTHY.