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Laodicea

NT Asia (Roman province)
The church in Laodicea — stained-glass style group portrait

A wealthy neighboring church to Colossae, told to exchange letters with them, and later addressed by name in the last and sharpest of Revelation's seven letters -- rebuked as "lukewarm" and warned that its material wealth had masked spiritual poverty.

References: Colossians 2:1; Colossians 4:15-16; Revelation 3:14-22

Named in Scripture at Laodicea