Revelation 2:8

The Passion Translation

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna. For these are the words of the one who is the Beginning and the End, the one who became a corpse, but came back to life:

Cross References

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the ending,” says the Lord God, “who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:11

saying to me: 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 2:1

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Ephesus. For these are the words of the one who holds the seven stars firmly in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands:

Isaiah 44:6

The words of Yahweh, Israel’s true King and Kinsman-Redeemer, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, says: “I am the Beginning and I am the Ending, and I am the only God there is.

Isaiah 48:12

“Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am the One and Only, the First and the Last.

Romans 14:9

For this very reason the Anointed One died and was brought back to life again, so that he would become the Lord God over both the dead and the living.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Aleph and the Tav, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the Completion.”