a John 17:8; Rev 5:7
b Rev 22:6
c Dan 2:28f; Rev 1:19
e Rev 17:1; 19:9f; 21:9; 22:16
f Rev 1:4, 9; 22:8
g Rev 1:9; 6:9; 12:17; 20:4
h 1 Cor 1:6; Rev 12:17
i Luke 11:28; Rev 22:7
k Rom 13:11; Rev 3:11; 22:7, 10, 12
l Rev 1:1, 9; 22:8
m Rev 1:11, 20
n Acts 2:9
o Rom 1:7
p Rev 1:8, 17; 4:8; 16:5
r Is 11:2; Rev 3:1; 4:5; 5:6; 8:2
s Rev 3:14; 19:11
t 1 Cor 15:20; Col 1:18
u Rev 17:14; 19:16
v Rom 8:37
x Rev 5:10; 20:6
y Rev 5:10; 20:6
aa Rom 15:6
ab Rom 11:36
ac Dan 7:13; 1 Thess 4:17
ad Zech 12:10-14; John 19:37
ae Luke 23:28
af Is 41:4; Rev 21:6; 22:13
ag Rev 4:8; 11:17
ah Rev 1:4
aj Rev 1:1
ak Acts 1:15
al Matt 20:23; Acts 14:22; 2 Cor 1:7; Phil 4:14
am 2 Tim 2:12; Rev 1:6
ao 2 Thess 3:5; Rev 3:10
ap Rev 1:2
ar Matt 22:43; Rev 4:2; 17:3; 21:10
as Acts 20:7
at Rev 4:1
au Rev 1:2, 19
aw Rev 1:4, 20
ax Rev 2:1
ay Rev 2:8
az Rev 2:12
ba Acts 16:14; Rev 2:18, 24
bb Rev 3:1, 4
bc Rev 3:7
bd Col 2:1; Rev 3:14
be Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:20; 2:1
bf Rev 2:1
bg Ezek 1:26; Dan 7:13; 10:16; Rev 14:14
bi Dan 10:5
bj Rev 15:6
bk Dan 7:9
bl Dan 7:9; 10:6; Rev 2:18; 19:12
bm Ezek 1:7; Dan 10:6; Rev 2:18
bn Ezek 1:24; 43:2; Rev 14:2; 19:6
bo Rev 1:20; 2:1; 3:1
bp Is 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rev 2:12, 16; 19:15
bq Matt 17:2; Rev 10:1
br Judg 5:31
bt Dan 8:17; 10:9, 10, 15
bu Dan 8:18; 10:10, 12
bv Matt 14:27; 17:7
bw Is 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev 2:8; 22:13
bx Luke 24:5; Rev 4:9f
bz Rom 6:9; Rev 2:8; 10:6; 15:7
ca Job 38:17; Matt 11:23; 16:19; Rev 9:1; 20:1
cb Rev 1:11
cc Rev 1:12-16
cd Rev 4:1
ce Rom 11:25
cf Rev 1:16; 2:1; 3:1
cg Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:12; 2:1
ch Rev 1:16; 2:1; 3:1
ci Rev 1:4, 11
cj Matt 5:14f

Revelation of John 1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which aGod gave Him to bshow to His bond-servants, cthe things which must soon take place; and He sent and ▼
▼ Or signified
communicated it eby His angel to His bond-servant fJohn, 2who testified to gthe word of God and to hthe testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 3 iBlessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and ▼
▼ Or keep
heed the things which are written in it; kfor the time is near.

Message to the Seven Churches

4 lJohn to mthe seven churches that are in nAsia: oGrace to you and peace, from pHim who is and who was and who ▼
▼ Or is coming
is to come, and from rthe seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5and from Jesus Christ, sthe faithful witness, the tfirstborn of the dead, and the uruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who vloves us and released us from our sins ▼
▼ Or in
by His blood— 6and He has made us to be a xkingdom, ypriests to ▼
▼ Or God and His Father
 , aaHis God and Father— abto Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7 ac Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and adevery eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will aemourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

8“I am afthe Alpha and the Omega,” says the agLord God, ah“who is and who was and who ▼
▼ Or is coming
is to come, the Almighty.”

The Patmos Vision

9 ajI, John, your akbrother and alfellow partaker in the tribulation and amkingdom and ▼
▼ Or steadfastness
 , aoperseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos apbecause of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10I was ▼
▼ Or in spirit
 , arin the Spirit on asthe Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice atlike the sound of a trumpet, 11saying, au“Write in a ▼
▼ Or scroll
book what you see, and send it to the awseven churches: to axEphesus and to aySmyrna and to azPergamum and to baThyatira and to bbSardis and to bcPhiladelphia and to bdLaodicea.”

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw beseven golden lampstands; 13and bfin the middle of the lampstands I saw one bglike ▼
▼ Or the Son of Man
a son of man, biclothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and bjgirded across His chest with a golden sash. 14His head and His bkhair were white like white wool, like snow; and blHis eyes were like a flame of fire. 15His bmfeet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His bnvoice was like the sound of many waters. 16In His right hand He held boseven stars, and out of His mouth came a bpsharp two-edged sword; and His bqface was like brthe sun ▼
▼ Lit shines
shining in its strength.

17When I saw Him, I btfell at His feet like a dead man. And He buplaced His right hand on me, saying, bv“Do not be afraid; bwI am the first and the last, 18and the bxliving One; and I ▼
▼ Lit became
 , bzwas dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have cathe keys of death and of Hades. 19“Therefore cbwrite ccthe things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place cdafter these things. 20“As for the cemystery of the cfseven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the cgseven golden lampstands: the chseven stars are the angels of cithe seven churches, and the seven cjlampstands are the seven churches.
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