# your ... you

These refer to the believers in the seven churches.

# I, John—your brother and the one who shares with you in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are in Jesus—was

"I, John, am your brother who shares with you in God's kingdom and also suffers and patiently endures trials along with you because we belong to Jesus. I was"

# because of the word of God

"because I told others the message that God spoke"

# the testimony about Jesus

"the testimony that God has given about Jesus"