Revelation 2:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ ‹And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;›

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  • Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, ‹Fear not; I am the first and the last:› 18 [I am] ‹he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.›
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 ‹I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,› saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
  • Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, ‹I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send› [it] ‹unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.›
  • Rev 2:1 : 1 ¶ ‹Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;›

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    1¶ ‹And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.›

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  • Rev 2:9-13
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    9‹I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and› [I know] ‹the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but› [are] ‹the synagogue of Satan.›

    10‹Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast› [some] ‹of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.›

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    8‹I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,› saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

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    10I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

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    19‹Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;›

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    13‹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.›

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