Revelation 1:8-11

English Standard Version

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

Vision of the Son of Man

⁹ I, John, your brother and ^(C)partner in ^(D)the tribulation and ^(E)the kingdom and ^(F)the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos ^(G)on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ^10 (H)I was in the Spirit ^(I)on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice ^(J)like a trumpet ¹¹ saying, ^(K)“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.”