Revelation 2:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died 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

“Hearken 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, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to La-odicea.”

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: ‘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.”