| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood-- |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father-- to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword; and His face was like the sun shining in its strength. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. |
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