Revelation 1
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Revelation 1:9-15

9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

10I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet

11saying, "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."

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,

13and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.

14The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

15his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

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