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Revelation 1 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His slaves the things which must soon happen; and He indicated this by sending it through His angel to His slave [fn]John,

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:2 - who bore witness to the word of God and to the witness of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:3 - Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things which are written in it, for the time is near.

Message to the Seven Churches

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John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from the One who is and who was and who [fn]is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:5 - and 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 [fn]by His blood
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:6 - and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to [fn]His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:7 - BEHOLD, 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. Yes, amen.
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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the [fn]Lord God, “who is and who was and who [fn]is to come, the Almighty.”

The Vision of the Son of Man

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I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and [fn]perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the witness of Jesus.

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:10 - I was [fn]in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:11 - saying, “Write in a scroll 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.”
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Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:13 - and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like [fn]a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:14 - And His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:15 - His 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:16 - and having in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp two-edged sword which comes out of His mouth, and His face was like the sun [fn]shining in its power.
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And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not fear; I am the first and the last,

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:18 - and the living One; and I [fn]was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:19 - “Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:20 - “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.
LSB Footnotes
Gr Joannes, Heb Johanan; so in Rev
Or is coming
Or in
Or God and His Father
In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 41:4
Or is coming
Or steadfastness
Or in spirit
Or the Son of Man
Lit shines
Lit became
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