Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and sending by his angel he signified it to his servant John;
who testified the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ ( whatsoever things he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it; for the time is at hand.
John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him that is and that was and that is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us and washed us from our sins in his blood,
and he made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him be the glory and the might unto the ages of the ages. Amen.
Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and those which pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall wail on account of him. Yea, Amen.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, that is and that was and that is to come, the Almighty.
I, John, your brother and joint-partaker in tribulation and the kingdom and patience in Christ [Jesus], was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God and [because of] the testimony of Jesus [Christ].
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a loud voice as of a trumpet,
saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
And I turned to see the voice which was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lamp-stands,
and in the midst of the [seven] lamp-stands one like the Son of man, clad in a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the paps with a golden girdle:
his head and his hairs white as white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;
and his feet like fine brass, as glowing in a furnace; and his voice as a voice of many waters:
and he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance as the sun shineth in its strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead: and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,
and the living one: and I was dead, and, behold, I am alive unto the ages of the ages; and I have the keys of death and of hades.
Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which are about to come to pass after these:
the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest on my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands; the seven stars are angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp-stands are seven churches.