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New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 1:6-18

6and He has made us to be a 1kingdom, 2priests to 34His God and Father--5to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 76Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and 7every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will 8mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

8“I am 9the Alpha and the Omega,” says the 10Lord God, “11who is and who was and who 12is to come, the Almighty.”

913I, John, your 14brother and 15fellow partaker in the tribulation and 16kingdom and 1718perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos 19because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10I was 2021in the Spirit on 22the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice 23like the sound of a trumpet, 11saying, “24Write in a 25book what you see, and send it to the 26seven churches: to 27Ephesus and to 28Smyrna and to 29Pergamum and to 30Thyatira and to 31Sardis and to 32Philadelphia and to 33Laodicea.”

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw 34seven golden lampstands; 13and 35in the middle of the lampstands I saw one 36like 37a son of man, 38clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and 39girded across His chest with a golden sash. 14His head and His 40hair were white like white wool, like snow; and 41His eyes were like a flame of fire. 15His 42feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His 43voice was like the sound of many waters. 16In His right hand He held 44seven stars, and out of His mouth came a 45sharp two-edged sword; and His 46face was like 47the sun 48shining in its strength.

17When I saw Him, I 49fell at His feet like a dead man. And He 50placed His right hand on me, saying, “51Do not be afraid; 52I am the first and the last, 18and the 53living One; and I 5455was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have 56the keys of death and of Hades.

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Notes

  1. 1. Revelation 1:6 Rev 5:10; 20:6 ↩
  2. 2. Revelation 1:6 Rev 5:10; 20:6 ↩
  3. 3. Revelation 1:6 Or God and His Father ↩
  4. 4. Revelation 1:6 Rom 15:6 ↩
  5. 5. Revelation 1:6 Rom 11:36 ↩
  6. 6. Revelation 1:7 Dan 7:13; 1 Thess 4:17 ↩
  7. 7. Revelation 1:7 Zech 12:10-14; John 19:37 ↩
  8. 8. Revelation 1:7 Luke 23:28 ↩
  9. 9. Revelation 1:8 Is 41:4; Rev 21:6; 22:13 ↩
  10. 10. Revelation 1:8 Rev 4:8; 11:17 ↩
  11. 11. Revelation 1:8 Rev 1:4 ↩
  12. 12. Revelation 1:8 Or is coming ↩
  13. 13. Revelation 1:9 Rev 1:1 ↩
  14. 14. Revelation 1:9 Acts 1:15 ↩
  15. 15. Revelation 1:9 Matt 20:23; Acts 14:22; 2 Cor 1:7; Phil 4:14 ↩
  16. 16. Revelation 1:9 2 Tim 2:12; Rev 1:6 ↩
  17. 17. Revelation 1:9 Or steadfastness ↩
  18. 18. Revelation 1:9 2 Thess 3:5; Rev 3:10 ↩
  19. 19. Revelation 1:9 Rev 1:2 ↩
  20. 20. Revelation 1:10 Or in spirit ↩
  21. 21. Revelation 1:10 Matt 22:43; Rev 4:2; 17:3; 21:10 ↩
  22. 22. Revelation 1:10 Acts 20:7 ↩
  23. 23. Revelation 1:10 Rev 4:1 ↩
  24. 24. Revelation 1:11 Rev 1:2, 19 ↩
  25. 25. Revelation 1:11 Or scroll ↩
  26. 26. Revelation 1:11 Rev 1:4, 20 ↩
  27. 27. Revelation 1:11 Rev 2:1 ↩
  28. 28. Revelation 1:11 Rev 2:8 ↩
  29. 29. Revelation 1:11 Rev 2:12 ↩
  30. 30. Revelation 1:11 Acts 16:14; Rev 2:18, 24 ↩
  31. 31. Revelation 1:11 Rev 3:1, 4 ↩
  32. 32. Revelation 1:11 Rev 3:7 ↩
  33. 33. Revelation 1:11 Col 2:1; Rev 3:14 ↩
  34. 34. Revelation 1:12 Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:20; 2:1 ↩
  35. 35. Revelation 1:13 Rev 2:1 ↩
  36. 36. Revelation 1:13 Ezek 1:26; Dan 7:13; 10:16; Rev 14:14 ↩
  37. 37. Revelation 1:13 Or the Son of Man ↩
  38. 38. Revelation 1:13 Dan 10:5 ↩
  39. 39. Revelation 1:13 Rev 15:6 ↩
  40. 40. Revelation 1:14 Dan 7:9 ↩
  41. 41. Revelation 1:14 Dan 7:9; 10:6; Rev 2:18; 19:12 ↩
  42. 42. Revelation 1:15 Ezek 1:7; Dan 10:6; Rev 2:18 ↩
  43. 43. Revelation 1:15 Ezek 1:24; 43:2; Rev 14:2; 19:6 ↩
  44. 44. Revelation 1:16 Rev 1:20; 2:1; 3:1 ↩
  45. 45. Revelation 1:16 Is 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rev 2:12, 16; 19:15 ↩
  46. 46. Revelation 1:16 Matt 17:2; Rev 10:1 ↩
  47. 47. Revelation 1:16 Judg 5:31 ↩
  48. 48. Revelation 1:16 Lit shines ↩
  49. 49. Revelation 1:17 Dan 8:17; 10:9, 10, 15 ↩
  50. 50. Revelation 1:17 Dan 8:18; 10:10, 12 ↩
  51. 51. Revelation 1:17 Matt 14:27; 17:7 ↩
  52. 52. Revelation 1:17 Is 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev 2:8; 22:13 ↩
  53. 53. Revelation 1:18 Luke 24:5; Rev 4:9f ↩
  54. 54. Revelation 1:18 Lit became ↩
  55. 55. Revelation 1:18 Rom 6:9; Rev 2:8; 10:6; 15:7 ↩
  56. 56. Revelation 1:18 Job 38:17; Matt 11:23; 16:19; Rev 9:1; 20:1 ↩

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