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39 See now that I, even I, am he;
    there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
    I wound, and I heal;
    and no one can deliver from my hand.(A)

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The Lord kills and brings to life;
    he brings down to Sheol and raises up.(A)

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A Call to Repentance

“Come, let us return to the Lord,
    for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
    he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)

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18 For he wounds, but he binds up;
    he strikes, but his hands heal.(A)

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I am the Lord, and there is no other;
    besides me there is no god.
    I arm you, though you do not know me,(A)

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22 Turn to me and be saved,
    all the ends of the earth!
    For I am God, and there is no other.(A)

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13 Indeed, since that day I am he;
    there is no one who can deliver from my hand;
    I work, and who can hinder it?(A)

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even to your old age I am he;
    even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
    I will carry and will save.(A)

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18 For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
he did not create it a chaos;
    he formed it to be inhabited!):
I am the Lord, and there is no other.(A)

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20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.(A)

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Who has performed and done this,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am first
    and will be with the last.(A)

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17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last(A) 18 and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.(B)

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22 Mark this, then, you who forget God,
    or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.(A)

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35 To you it was shown so that you would acknowledge that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.(A)

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12 Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called:
I am he; I am the first,
    and I am the last.(A)

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When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his skin disease? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”(A)

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27     but you are the same, and your years have no end.(A)

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although you know that I am not guilty,
    and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?(A)

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The Message to Smyrna

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who was dead and came to life:(A)

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And among the nations the remnant of Jacob,
    surrounded by many peoples,
shall be like a lion among the animals of the forest,
    like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
which, when it goes through, treads down
    and tears in pieces, with no one to deliver.(A)

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12 like a cloak you will roll them up,
    and like clothing[a] they will be changed.
But you are the same,
    and your years will never end.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 Other ancient authorities lack like clothing

24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.24 Gk I am

11 saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

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