And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write:\par\tab These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:
and from Jesus Christ, {\i who is} the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:\par\tab These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all the word wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us.
so that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.\par
And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass.
And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I {\i am} the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
saying, {\cf6 What thou seest, write in a book and send {\i 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.}
{\cf6 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:\par\tab These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:
And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.
but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
Jesus answered and said unto them, {\cf6 Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go.