Revelation 1:1-20 ASV14 - Bible AI

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, [even] the things which must quickly come to pass: and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John;

²who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw.

³Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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 that are before his throne;

⁵and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood;

⁶and he made us kings and priests unto his God and Father; to him [be] the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

⁷Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

⁸I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

⁹I John, both your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet

¹¹saying, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches which are in Asia: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

¹²And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;

¹³and in the midst of the lampstands one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.

¹⁴And his head and his hair were white as white wool, [white] as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

¹⁵and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.

¹⁶And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

¹⁷And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

¹⁸and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, amen; and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

¹⁹Write the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which are about to come hereafter;

²⁰the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches; and the seven lampstands which thou sawest are seven churches.