启示录 1
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
念诵的听见的遵守的有福了
1 耶稣基督的启示，就是神赐给他，叫他将必要快成的事指示他的众仆人。他就差遣使者晓谕他的仆人约翰。 2 约翰便将神的道和耶稣基督的见证，凡自己所看见的都证明出来。 3 念这书上预言的和那些听见又遵守其中所记载的，都是有福的，因为日期近了。
4 约翰写信给亚细亚的七个教会。但愿从那昔在、今在、以后永在的神和他宝座前的七灵， 5 并那诚实作见证的、从死里首先复活、为世上君王元首的耶稣基督，有恩惠、平安归于你们！他爱我们，用自己的血使我们脱离[a]罪恶， 6 又使我们成为国民，做他父神的祭司。但愿荣耀、权能归给他，直到永永远远！阿门。
论主降临的情形
7 看哪，他驾云降临，众目要看见他，连刺他的人也要看见他，地上的万族都要因他哀哭。这话是真实的，阿门。
8 主神说：“我是阿拉法，我是俄梅戛[b]，是昔在、今在、以后永在的全能者。”
9 我约翰，就是你们的弟兄，和你们在耶稣的患难、国度、忍耐里一同有份，为神的道并为给耶稣作的见证，曾在那名叫拔摩的海岛上。 10 当主日，我被圣灵感动，听见在我后面有大声音如吹号说： 11 “你所看见的当写在书上，达于以弗所、士每拿、别迦摩、推雅推喇、撒狄、非拉铁非、老底嘉那七个教会。”
救主的荣威
12 我转过身来，要看是谁发声与我说话；既转过来，就看见七个金灯台， 13 灯台中间有一位好像人子，身穿长衣，直垂到脚，胸间束着金带。 14 他的头与发皆白，如白羊毛，如雪，眼目如同火焰， 15 脚好像在炉中锻炼光明的铜，声音如同众水的声音。 16 他右手拿着七星，从他口中出来一把两刃的利剑，面貌如同烈日放光。
主拿着死亡和阴间的钥匙
17 我一看见，就仆倒在他脚前，像死了一样。他用右手按着我说：“不要惧怕。我是首先的，我是末后的， 18 又是那存活的；我曾死过，现在又活了，直活到永永远远，并且拿着死亡和阴间的钥匙。 19 所以你要把所看见的和现在的事，并将来必成的事，都写出来。 20 论到你所看见在我右手中的七星和七个金灯台的奥秘，那七星就是七个教会的使者，七灯台就是七个教会。
Revelation 1
Contemporary English Version
1 This is what God showed to Jesus Christ, so that he could tell his servants what must happen soon. Christ then sent his angel with the message to his servant John. 2 And John told everything he had seen about God's message and about what Jesus Christ had said and done.
3 God will bless everyone who reads this prophecy to others,[a] and he will bless everyone who hears and obeys it. The time is almost here.
4 (A) From John to the seven churches in Asia.[b]
I pray that you
will be blessed
with kindness and peace
from God, who is and was
and is coming.
May you receive
kindness and peace
from the seven spirits
before the throne of God.
5 (B) May kindness and peace
be yours
from Jesus Christ,
the faithful witness.
Jesus was the first
to conquer death,
and he is the ruler
of all earthly kings.
Christ loves us,
and by his blood
he set us free
from our sins.
6 (C) He lets us rule as kings
and serve God his Father
as priests.
To him be glory and power
forever and ever! Amen.
7 (D) Look! He is coming
with the clouds.
Everyone will see him,
even the ones who stuck
a sword through him.
All people on earth
will weep because of him.
Yes, it will happen! Amen.
8 (E) The Lord God says, “I am Alpha and Omega,[c] the one who is and was and is coming. I am God All-Powerful!”
A Vision of the Risen Lord
9 I am John, a follower together with all of you. We suffer because Jesus is our king, but he gives us the strength to endure. I was sent to Patmos Island,[d] because I had preached God's message and had told about Jesus. 10 On the Lord's day the Spirit took control of me, and behind me I heard a loud voice that sounded like a trumpet. 11 The voice said, “Write in a book what you see. Then send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”[e]
12 When I turned to see who was speaking to me, I saw seven gold lampstands. 13 (F) There with the lampstands was someone who seemed to be the Son of Man.[f] He was wearing a robe that reached down to his feet, and a gold cloth was wrapped around his chest. 14 (G)(H) His head and his hair were white as wool or snow, and his eyes looked like flames of fire. 15 (I) His feet were glowing like bronze being heated in a furnace, and his voice sounded like the roar of a waterfall. 16 He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp double-edged sword was coming from his mouth. His face was shining as bright as the sun at noon.
17 (J) When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person. But he put his right hand on me and said:
Don't be afraid! I am the first, the last, 18 and the living one. I died, but now I am alive forever, and I have the keys to death and the world of the dead.[g] 19 Write what you have seen and what is and what will happen after these things. 20 I will explain the mystery of the seven stars you saw at my right side and the seven gold lampstands. The seven stars are the angels[h] of the seven churches, and the lampstands are the seven churches.
Footnotes
- 1.3 who reads this prophecy to others: A public reading, in a worship service.
- 1.4 Asia: The section 1.4—3.22 is in the form of a letter. Asia was in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and is present day Turkey.
- 1.8 Alpha and Omega: The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, which sometimes mean “first” and “last.”
- 1.9 Patmos Island: A small island where prisoners were sometimes kept by the Romans.
- 1.11 Ephesus … Laodicea: Ephesus was in the center with the six other cities forming a half-circle around it.
- 1.13 Son of Man: That is, Jesus.
- 1.18 keys to death and the world of the dead: That is, power over death and the world of the dead.
- 1.20 angels: Perhaps guardian angels that represent the churches, or they may be church leaders or messengers sent to the churches.
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