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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 ESV</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/revelation/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Prologue</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for servant later in this verse">a</a></sup></span> the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.</p> <p class="heading">Greeting to the Seven Churches</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>John to the seven churches that are in Asia:</p><p class="regular">Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 kings on earth.</p><p class="regular">To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 tribes of the earth will wail<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or mourn">b</a></sup></span> on account of him. Even so. Amen.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”</p> <p class="heading">Vision of the Son of Man</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>saying, <span class="woc">“Write what you see in a book and send it 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> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, <span class="woc">“Fear not, I am the first and the last,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woc">and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="woc">Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="woc">As for the mystery of the seven stars that 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></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> For the contextual rendering of the Greek word <i language="Greek">doulos</i>, see <a href="../">>Preface</a>; likewise for <i>servant</i> later in this verse<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>mourn</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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