1:1 The 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 ①communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,
▷ ①Or signified
1:2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw.
1:3 Blessed is the one who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy and ①keep the things which are written in it; for the time is near.
▷ ①Or follow
1:4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is, and who was, and who ①is to come, and from the ②seven spirits who are before His throne,
▷ ①Or is coming ②Possibly a symbolic reference to the Holy Spirit in His fullness, or to seven key angels
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 by His blood—
1:6 and He made us into a kingdom, priests to ①His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
▷ ①Or God and His Father
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. ①So it is to be. Amen.
▷ ①Or Yes. Amen.
1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who ①is to come, the Almighty.”
▷ ①Or is coming
1:9 I, John, your brother and fellow participant in the tribulation and kingdom and ①perseverance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
▷ ①Or steadfastness
1:10 I was in the ①Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet,
▷ ①Or spirit
1:11 saying, “Write ①on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
▷ ①Or in a book
1:12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And after turning I saw seven golden lampstands;
1:13 and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like ①a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and wrapped around the chest with a golden sash.
▷ ①Or the Son of Man
1:14 His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire.
1:15 His feet were like ①burnished bronze when it has been heated to a glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.
▷ ①Or fine brass
1:16 In 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 ①shining in its strength.
▷ ①Lit shines
1:17 When 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,
1:18 and the living One; and I ①was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
▷ ①Lit became
1:19 Therefore write the things which you have seen, ①and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.
▷ ①Or both the things
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.