Revelation 2:8

New Living Translation

“Write this letter to the angel of the church in Smyrna. This is the message from the one who is the First and the Last, who was dead but is now alive:

Cross References

Isaiah 44:6

This is what the Lord says—Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: “I am the First and the Last; there is no other God.

Isaiah 48:12

“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last.

Romans 14:9

Christ died and rose again for this very purpose—to be Lord both of the living and of the dead.

Revelation 1:11

It said, “Write in a book everything you see, and send it to the seven churches in the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.”

Revelation 2:1

“Write this letter to the angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks among the seven gold lampstands:

Revelation 22:13

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