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* The Revelation of Jesus Christ , which God gave to him , to show to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass ; and he sent his angel to make it known to his servant John : * Who bore witness to the word of God , and to the testimony of Jesus Christ , to all things that he saw . * Blessed is he who reads , and those who hear the words of this prophecy , and heed those things which are written in it : for the time is at hand . * John to the seven churches which are in Asia : Grace be 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 ; * And from Jesus Christ , the faithful witness , and the firstborn of the dead , and the ruler of the kings of the earth . To him who loves us , and freed us from our sins by his own blood , * And has made us a kingdom , and priests to his God and Father ; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever . Amen . * Behold , he comes with the clouds ; and every eye shall see him , even those who pierced him : and all families of the earth shall mourn because of him . Even so , Amen . * I am Alpha and Omega , says the Lord , who is , and who was , and who is to come , the Almighty . * I , John , your brother and companion in the tribulation , and kingdom , and endurance which are ours in Jesus , was on the island that is called Patmos , because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus . * I was in the Spirit on the Lord 's day , and heard behind me a great voice , as of a trumpet , * Saying , What you see , write in a book , 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 . * And I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me . And having turned , I saw seven golden lampstands ; * And in the midst of the seven lampstands , one like a Son of man , clothed with a garment down to his feet , and around his breast a golden girdle . * His head and his hair were white like wool , as white as snow ; and his eyes were like a flame of fire ; * And his feet like burnished bronze , as if they glowed in a furnace ; and his voice like the sound of many waters . * And he had in his right hand seven stars : and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword : and his face was like the sun shining at full strength . * And when I saw him , I fell at his feet as if dead . And he laid his right hand upon me , saying to me , Do not fear ; I am the first and the last , * The one who lives ; I was dead , and , behold , I am alive forevermore , and possess the keys of death and of Hades . * Write the things which you have seen , and the things which are , and the things which shall be hereafter ; * The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand , and the seven golden lampstands , is this : The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches , and the seven lampstands are the seven churches .

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