Revelation 1

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1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to show unto His servants things which must shortly. And he sent [signified] by his angel unto his servant John,
2 who testified the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ and what he has seen.

3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those which are written therein; for the time is near.
4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever, amen.
7 Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him; and wail because of him shall all families of the earth. She Amen.
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, who is and was and is to come, the Almighty.

9 I, John, your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;
eleven what you see, write in a book and send it to the churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, and to Thyatira and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
12 I turned to see the voice that spake with me; And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 and, in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed in podir and through Persia with a golden girdle:
14 His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters.
16 He held in his right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword; and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the First and the Last,
18 and the living; and he was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, Amen; and I have the keys of hell and of death.
19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and what is and what will be after this.
20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven golden candlesticks [stands is this]: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven candlesticks which you saw are the seven churches.

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