“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:
For this reason Christ died and then rose and lived again, so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
saying, “Write what yoʋ see in a book and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands:
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”