Revelation 2:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ “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:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And to the angel (messenger) of the assembly (church) in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, Who died and came to life again: [Isa. 44:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again:

Common English Bible

⁸ “Write this to the angel of the church in Smyrna: These are the words of the one who is the first and the last, who died and came back to life:

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And to the Angel of the Church of Smyrna write: Thus says the First and the Last, he who was dead and now lives:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

Revelation 2:8 Cross References

Isaiah 44:6

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Isaiah 48:12

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

Romans 14:9

For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

Revelation 1:11

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.”

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands:

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”