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I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

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

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saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send [it] to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

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And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks

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and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.

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And his head and his hair were white as white wool, [white] as snow and his eyes were as a flame of fire

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and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace and his voice as the voice of many waters.

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And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

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And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not I am the first and the last,

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and the Living one and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

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Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter

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the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.