Revelation 2:8
Good News Translation
"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: "This is the message from the one who is the first and the last, who died and lived again.

New Revised Standard Version
“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the first and the last, who was dead and came to life:

Contemporary English Version
This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: I am the first and the last. I died, but now I am alive! Listen to what I say.

New American Bible
“To the angel of the church in Smyrna, write this: “ ‘The first and the last, who once died but came to life, says this:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:

the angel.

Revelation 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

the first.

Revelation 1:8,11,17,18 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. . . .

Context
To the Church in Smyrna
7He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of my God. 8And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive: 9I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.…
Cross References
Isaiah 44:6
Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

Isaiah 48:12
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Revelation 1:11
Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

Revelation 1:17
And when I had seen 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,

Revelation 1:18
And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Revelation 22:13
I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Revelation 2:7
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