John,

To the Seven Churches which are in Asia,

May favor be yours and peace,

1:4.

From The Present and The Past and The Coming One,

And from the Seven Spirits who are before his

throne,

And from Jesus Christ,

The Faithful Witness,

The First-born of the dead,

And The Ruler of the kings of the earth,

To him who loves us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood,

And he made us to be a kingdom,
Priests to his God and Father,—

To him be the majesty and the dominion forever.
Amen.

Lo, he is coming with the clouds;

And every eye will see him,

And those who pierced him;

And all the tribes of the earth will mourn at sight

of him.

Yes, Amen.

I am Alpha and Omega,

Says the Lord, the God,

The Present and The Past and The Coming One, The All-Ruler.

1:9.

I, John, your brother and fellow-sharer

In the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Jesus,

Was in the island called Patmos,

On account of God's message and the witness of Jesus.

I was under the influence of the Spirit on the Lord's day,

And heard behind me a loud voice like a

trumpet, saying:

"Write what you see in a book,

And send 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 who was talking with me,

And when I had turned,

I saw Seven Gold Lampstands

And among the Lampstands,

One like the Son of Man,

Clothed with a garment down to his feet,

And girt about at the breasts with a gold girdle. His head and his hair were white,

Like white wool, like snow,

And his eyes like a flame of fire,

And his feet like burnished brass,

As if it had been refined in a furnace,

And his voice like the voice of many waters.
And he had in his right hand Seven Stars,

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And out of his mouth was a sharp two-edged sword going,

And his face was like the sun shining in its strength.

And when I saw him I fell at his feet

Like a dead man.

And he laid his right hand on me,

And said:

"Do not be afraid.

I am The First and The Last and The Living One,

I became a dead man,

And, lo, I am living forever and ever,And have the keys of Death and of Hades. So write what you saw, what is,

And what is going to happen after this.

The secret truth of the Seven Stars which you saw in my right hand,

And the Seven Gold Lampstands.

The Seven Stars are the Angels of the Seven

Churches,

And the Seven Lampstands are the Seven
Churches.

2: 1.

To the Angel of the Church in Ephesus write :

This is what he is saying,

Who is holding the Seven Stars in his right hand,

Who is walking among the Seven Gold Lampstands:

I know your works and your toil and endurance, And that you cannot bear evil men,

And put to the test those who say they them-
selves are Apostles,

And they are not, and you found them false;
And you have endurance,

And did bear for my name's sake,

And did not become weary.

But I have this against you,

That you forsook your first love.

So remember from what you have fallen,

And change your mind and the purpose of your

heart,

And do the first deeds.

For if you do not, I am going to come to you,
And will move your Lampstand out of its

place.

But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans,

Which I also hate.

He who has an ear, let him hear

What the Spirit is saying to the Churches.

To him who keeps overcoming,

To him will I give to eat of the Tree of Life, Which is in the Paradise of God.

2:7.