Revelation 1:3-8
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Blessed is the one who reads aloud these prophetic words, and blessed are those who hear them, and treasure everything written here, for the time is near.
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Message to the Seven Churches: Greeting
From John to the seven churches of Asia: receive grace and peace from him who is, who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits of God, which are before his throne,
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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us, and has washed away our sins with his own blood,
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making us a kingdom and priests for God his Father, to him be the glory and power, for ever and ever. Amen.
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See, he comes with the clouds,
and everyone will see him,
even those who pierced him;
on his account, all the nations of the earth
will beat their breast. Yes. It will be so.
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I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, “the one who is, and who was, and who is to come: the Almighty.”