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New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 1:9-20

91I, John, your 2brother and 3fellow partaker in the tribulation and 4kingdom and 56perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos 7because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10I was 89in the Spirit on 10the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice 11like the sound of a trumpet, 11saying, “12Write in a 13book what you see, and send it to the 14seven churches: to 15Ephesus and to 16Smyrna and to 17Pergamum and to 18Thyatira and to 19Sardis and to 20Philadelphia and to 21Laodicea.”

12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw 22seven golden lampstands; 13and 23in the middle of the lampstands I saw one 24like 25a son of man, 26clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and 27girded across His chest with a golden sash. 14His head and His 28hair were white like white wool, like snow; and 29His eyes were like a flame of fire. 15His 30feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His 31voice was like the sound of many waters. 16In His right hand He held 32seven stars, and out of His mouth came a 33sharp two-edged sword; and His 34face was like 35the sun 36shining in its strength.

17When I saw Him, I 37fell at His feet like a dead man. And He 38placed His right hand on me, saying, “39Do not be afraid; 40I am the first and the last, 18and the 41living One; and I 4243was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have 44the keys of death and of Hades. 19Therefore 45write 46the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place 47after these things. 20As for the 48mystery of the 49seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the 50seven golden lampstands: the 51seven stars are the angels of 52the seven churches, and the seven 53lampstands are the seven churches.

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Notes

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

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