Revelation 1.

1. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show to His servants, which must happen soon, and He made it known, sending it through His Angel to His servant John.
2. Who bore witness to the Word of God and to the witness of Jesus Christ, everything that he saw.
3. Blessed is he who reads, and they who hear the words of the prophecy and do the things which are written in it, because the time is near.
4. John, to the seven churches which 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, who are in the presence of His throne.
5. And from Jesus Christ, He who is the faithful witness, He who is the first born from the dead, and He who is the ruler of the kings of the earth, who loves you and washes you from your sins in His blood.
6. And He makes you kings and priests to God and to His Father: to Him be glory and power for ages of ages, amen.
7. Behold He comes with clouds, and every eye will see Him, and they who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him, even so amen.
8. “I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end,” says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, who is omnipotent.
9. And I, John, who is your brother, and companion in affliction, and in the kingdom and patient awaiting of Jesus Christ. I was on the on the island called Patmos because of the Word of God, and because of the witness of Jesus Christ.
10. I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard a great voice behind me, like that of a trumpet,
11. saying, “I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last. Write what you see in a book, and send it to the churches which are in Asia, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12. And I turned around to see the voice which was speaking with me, and having turned I saw seven golden lamp stands.
13. And in the middle of the seven lamp stands was someone like the son of humankind, dressed in an ankle length robe, and girded around the chest with a golden belt.
14. And His head and hair were bright, light bright wool, like snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire.
15. And His feet were like brass, as if heated in a furnace, and His voice was like the voice of many waters.
16. And He has seven stars in His right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword coming our of His mouth. And His face shines like the sun in its power.
17. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as if dead, and He placed His right hand upon me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid, I am the first and the last.
18. And I am the one who lives, and was made dead, and behold I am living into ages of ages, amen; and I have the keys of hell and death.
19. Write the things you have seen, and which are, and which are to be afterwards.
20. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands which you saw are the seven churches.”