Revelation 2:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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:

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.”