¹¹saying, “^aWrite in a ¹book what you see, and send it to the ^bseven churches: to ^cEphesus and to ^dSmyrna and to ^ePergamum and to ^fThyatira and to ^gSardis and to ^hPhiladelphia and to ⁱLaodicea.”

¹²Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw ^aseven golden lampstands;

¹³and ^ain the middle of the lampstands I saw one ^blike ¹a son of man, ^cclothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and ^dgirded across His chest with a golden sash.

¹⁴His head and His ^ahair were white like white wool, like snow; and ^bHis eyes were like a flame of fire.

¹⁵His ^afeet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His ^bvoice was like the sound of many waters.

¹⁶In His right hand He held ^aseven stars, and out of His mouth came a ^bsharp two-edged sword; and His ^cface was like ^dthe sun ¹shining in its strength.

¹⁷When I saw Him, I ^afell at His feet like a dead man. And He ^bplaced His right hand on me, saying, “^cDo not be afraid; ^dI am the first and the last,

¹⁸and the ^aliving One; and I ¹^bwas dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have ^cthe keys of death and of Hades.

¹⁹“Therefore ^awrite ^bthe things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place ^cafter these things.

²⁰“As for the ^amystery of the ^bseven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the ^cseven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of ^dthe seven churches, and the seven ^elampstands are the seven churches.

Read in Logos

Revelation 1:17: When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last …”

Footnotes

1Or in spirit
1Or scroll
1Or the Son of Man
1Lit shines
1Lit became

Cross references

a Matt 22:43; Rev 4:2; 17:3; 21:10
b Acts 20:7
c Rev 4:1
a Rev 1:2, 19
b Rev 1:4, 20
c Rev 2:1
d Rev 2:8
e Rev 2:12
f Acts 16:14; Rev 2:18, 24
g Rev 3:1, 4
h Rev 3:7
i Col 2:1; Rev 3:14
a Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:20; 2:1
a Rev 2:1
b Ezek 1:26; Dan 7:13; 10:16; Rev 14:14
c Dan 10:5
d Rev 15:6
a Dan 7:9
b Dan 7:9; 10:6; Rev 2:18; 19:12
a Ezek 1:7; Dan 10:6; Rev 2:18
b Ezek 1:24; 43:2; Rev 14:2; 19:6
a Rev 1:20; 2:1; 3:1
b Is 49:2; Heb 4:12; Rev 2:12, 16; 19:15
c Matt 17:2; Rev 10:1
d Judg 5:31
a Dan 8:17; 10:9, 10, 15
b Dan 8:18; 10:10, 12
c Matt 14:27; 17:7
d Is 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev 2:8; 22:13
a Luke 24:5; Rev 4:9f
b Rom 6:9; Rev 2:8; 10:6; 15:7
c Job 38:17; Matt 11:23; 16:19; Rev 9:1; 20:1
a Rev 1:11
b Rev 1:12–16
c Rev 4:1
a Rom 11:25
b Rev 1:16; 2:1; 3:1
c Ex 25:37; 37:23; Zech 4:2; Rev 1:12; 2:1
d Rev 1:4, 11
e Matt 5:14f