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Revelation 1 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Message to the Seven Churches

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 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 is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:5 - 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 loosed us from our sins by his blood;
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:6 - and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:8 - I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

The Patmos Vision

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:9 - I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:10 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:12 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks;
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:13 - and in the midst of the 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:14 - And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:15 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:16 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:17 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:18 - and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:19 - Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter;
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:20 - the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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