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1 : 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which Godgave himto show to his servantsthe things that must soon take place.He made it known by sending his angel to his servantJohn,
1 : 2 who bore witness to the word of God and tothe testimony of Jesus Christ, evento all that he saw.
1 : 3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it,for the time is near.
1 : 4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:Grace to you and peace fromhimwho is andwho was and who is to come, and fromthe seven spirits who are before his throne,
1 : 5 and from Jesus Christthe faithful witness,the firstborn of the dead, andthe ruler of kings on earth.Tohim who loves us andhas freed us from our sins by his blood
1 : 6 and made usa kingdom,priests tohis God and Father, to him beglory anddominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 : 7 Behold,he is coming with the clouds, andevery eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wailon account of him. Even so. Amen.
1 : 8 I am the Alpha and the Omega,says the Lord God,who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
1 : 9 I, John, your brother andpartner inthe tribulation andthe kingdom andthe patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmoson account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
1 : 10 I was in the Spiriton the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voicelike a trumpet
1 : 11 saying,Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.
1 : 12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I sawseven golden lampstands,
1 : 13 and in the midst of the lampstandsone likea son of man,clothed with a long robe andwith a golden sash around his chest.
1 : 14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow.His eyes were like a flame of fire,
1 : 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, andhis voice was like the roar of many waters.
1 : 16 In his right hand he held seven stars,from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, andhis face was like the sun shiningin full strength.
1 : 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Buthe laid his right hand on me,saying,Fear not,I am the first and the last,
1 : 18 and the living one.I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, andI have the keys of Death and Hades.
1 : 19 Write thereforethe things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.
1 : 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, andthe seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, andthe seven lampstands are the seven churches.