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Title:       New Testament, The
Book:        Revelation
Author:      Various
Date:        1881

Chapter 1

The Revelation Of John

     The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God ^1 gave him to show unto his ^2
servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and
signified ^3 it by his angel unto his servant John; who bare witness of the
word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he
saw.  Blessed 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.

[Footnote 1: Or, gave unto him, to show unto his servants the things &c.]

[Footnote 2: Gr. bondservants.]

[Footnote 3: Or, them]

     John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from
him who is and who was and ^4 who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that
are before his throne; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the
firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.  Unto him that
loveth us, and ^5 loosed us from our sins ^6 by his blood; and he made us to
be a kingdom, to be priests unto ^7 his God and Father; to him be the glory
and the dominion ^8 for ever and ever.  Amen.  Behold, 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.

[Footnote 4: Or, who cometh]

[Footnote 5: Many authorities, some ancient, read washed.  Heb. 9. 14; comp.
ch. 7. 14.]

[Footnote 6: Gr. in.]

[Footnote 7: Or, God and his Father]

[Footnote 8: Gr. unto the ages of the ages.  Many ancient authorities omit of
the ages.]

     I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, ^9 who is and who was
and ^4 who is to come, the Almighty.

[Footnote 9: Or, he who]

[Footnote 4: Or who cometh]

     I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom
and ^10 patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos,
for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.  I was in the Spirit on the
Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet saying, What
thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus,
and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and
unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that spake
with me.  And having turned I saw seven golden ^11 candlesticks; and in the
midst of the ^11 candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.
And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his
eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it
had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. And
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.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead.  And he laid his right
hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the Living
one; and I ^12 was dead, and behold, I am alive ^13 for evermore, and I have
the keys of death and of Hades.  Write therefore the things which thou sawest,
and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter;
the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest ^1 in my right hand, and the
seven golden ^2 candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven
churches: and the seven ^2 candlesticks are seven churches.

[Footnote 10: Or, stedfastness]

[Footnote 11: Gr. lampstands.]

[Footnote 12: Gr. became.]

[Footnote 13: Gr. unto the ages of the ages.]

[Footnote 1: Gr. upon.]

[Footnote 2: Gr. lampstands.]