Revelation 1:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷“Look! He is coming with the clouds!” (Daniel 7:13)
“Every eye will see him.
Even those who pierced him will see him.”
All the nations of the earth “will mourn because of him.” (Zechariah 12:10)
This will really happen! Amen.

⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord God. “I am the God who is, and who was, and who will come. I am the Mighty One.”

John’s Vision of Christ

⁹I, John, am a believer like you. I am a friend who suffers like you. As members of Jesus’ royal family, we can put up with anything that happens to us. I was on the island of Patmos because I taught God’s word and what Jesus said.

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Revelation 1:7-9

New International Version

⁷“Look, he is coming with the clouds,”^[a]^(A)
and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him”;^(B)
and all peoples on earth “will mourn^(C) because of him.”^[b]
So shall it be! Amen.

⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,”^(D) says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come,^(E) the Almighty.”^(F)

John’s Vision of Christ

⁹I, John,^(G) your brother and companion in the suffering^(H) and kingdom^(I) and patient endurance^(J) that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God^(K) and the testimony of Jesus.^(L)