New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 1:11-20

11saying, “1Write in a 2book what you see, and send it to the 3seven churches: to 4Ephesus and to 5Smyrna and to 6Pergamum and to 7Thyatira and to 8Sardis and to 9Philadelphia and to 10Laodicea.”

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw 11seven golden lampstands; 13and 12in the middle of the lampstands I saw one 13like 14a son of man, 15clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and 16girded across His chest with a golden sash. 14His head and His 17hair were white like white wool, like snow; and 18His eyes were like a flame of fire. 15His 19feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His 20voice was like the sound of many waters. 16In His right hand He held 21seven stars, and out of His mouth came a 22sharp two-edged sword; and His 23face was like 24the sun 25shining in its strength.

17When I saw Him, I 26fell at His feet like a dead man. And He 27placed His right hand on me, saying, “28Do not be afraid; 29I am the first and the last, 18and the 30living One; and I 31 32was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have 33the keys of death and of Hades. 19Therefore 34write 35the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place 36after these things. 20As for the 37mystery of the 38seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the 39seven golden lampstands: the 40seven stars are the angels of 41the seven churches, and the seven 42lampstands are the seven churches.

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Notes

1. Revelation 1:11 Rev 1:2, 19 ↩
2. Revelation 1:11 Or scroll ↩
3. Revelation 1:11 Rev 1:4, 20 ↩
4. Revelation 1:11 Rev 2:1 ↩
5. Revelation 1:11 Rev 2:8 ↩
6. Revelation 1:11 Rev 2:12 ↩
7. Revelation 1:11 Acts 16:14; Rev 2:18, 24 ↩
8. Revelation 1:11 Rev 3:1, 4 ↩
9. Revelation 1:11 Rev 3:7 ↩
10. Revelation 1:11 Col 2:1; Rev 3:14 ↩
11. Revelation 1:12 Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:20; 2:1 ↩
12. Revelation 1:13 Rev 2:1 ↩
13. Revelation 1:13 Ezek 1:26; Dan 7:13; 10:16; Rev 14:14 ↩
14. Revelation 1:13 Or the Son of Man ↩
15. Revelation 1:13 Dan 10:5 ↩
16. Revelation 1:13 Rev 15:6 ↩
17. Revelation 1:14 Dan 7:9 ↩
18. Revelation 1:14 Dan 7:9; 10:6; Rev 2:18; 19:12 ↩
19. Revelation 1:15 Ezek 1:7; Dan 10:6; Rev 2:18 ↩
20. Revelation 1:15 Ezek 1:24; 43:2; Rev 14:2; 19:6 ↩
21. Revelation 1:16 Rev 1:20; 2:1; 3:1 ↩
22. Revelation 1:16 Is 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rev 2:12, 16; 19:15 ↩
23. Revelation 1:16 Matt 17:2; Rev 10:1 ↩
24. Revelation 1:16 Judg 5:31 ↩
25. Revelation 1:16 Lit shines ↩
26. Revelation 1:17 Dan 8:17; 10:9, 10, 15 ↩
27. Revelation 1:17 Dan 8:18; 10:10, 12 ↩
28. Revelation 1:17 Matt 14:27; 17:7 ↩
29. Revelation 1:17 Is 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev 2:8; 22:13 ↩
30. Revelation 1:18 Luke 24:5; Rev 4:9f ↩
31. Revelation 1:18 Lit became ↩
32. Revelation 1:18 Rom 6:9; Rev 2:8; 10:6; 15:7 ↩
33. Revelation 1:18 Job 38:17; Matt 11:23; 16:19; Rev 9:1; 20:1 ↩
34. Revelation 1:19 Rev 1:11 ↩
35. Revelation 1:19 Rev 1:12-16 ↩
36. Revelation 1:19 Rev 4:1 ↩
37. Revelation 1:20 Rom 11:25 ↩
38. Revelation 1:20 Rev 1:16; 2:1; 3:1 ↩
39. Revelation 1:20 Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:12; 2:1 ↩
40. Revelation 1:20 Rev 1:16; 2:1; 3:1 ↩
41. Revelation 1:20 Rev 1:4, 11 ↩
42. Revelation 1:20 Matt 5:14f ↩

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