In His commendation of the Church of Thyatira, Christ lays the emphasis on their 'works', as if they depended on them and claimed they deserved merit.

But He had a complaint to make against them that was terrible. He charges them not only with permitting a bad woman, Jezebel, who called herself a Prophetess, to remain in the Church, but with permitting her to teach her doctrines and to seduce the servants to commit fornication and to eat thing sacrificed to idols.