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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Revelation 1 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Revelation 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jude/1.htm" title="Jude 1">◄</a> Revelation 1 <a href="../revelation/2.htm" title="Revelation 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/revelation/1.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Revelation of Jesus Christ</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His slaves the things which must soon happen; and He indicated <i>this</i> by sending <i>it</i> through His angel to His slave <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>John, <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>who bore witness to the word of God and to the witness of Jesus Christ, <i>even</i> to all that he saw. <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things which are written in it, for the time is near. <p class="hdg">Message to the Seven Churches</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from the One who is and who was and who <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by His blood— <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and He has made us <i>to be</i> a kingdom, priests to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>His God and Father—to Him <i>be</i> the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM, EVEN THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM; and all the tribes of the earth will MOURN OVER HIM. Yes, amen. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am the Alpha and the Omega,”</span> says the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Lord God, <span class="red">“who is and who was and who <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>is to come, the Almighty.”</span> <p class="hdg">The Vision of the Son of Man</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>perseverance <i>which are</i> in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the witness of Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>saying, <span class="red">“Write in a scroll what you see, and send <i>it</i> to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands; <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and in the middle of the lampstands <i>I saw</i> one like <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>His feet <i>were</i> like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice <i>was</i> like the sound of many waters, <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and having in His right hand seven stars, and a sharp two-edged sword which comes out of His mouth, and His face was like the sun <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>shining in its power. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, <span class="red">“Do not fear; I am the first and the last,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">and the living One; and I <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/revelation/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.</span><A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Gr <i>Joannes</i>, Heb <i>Johanan</i>; so in Rev<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>is coming</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>God and His Father</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 41:4<br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>is coming</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>steadfastness</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>in spirit</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>the Son of Man</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>shines</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>became</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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