and he has made from one blood every nation of men, that they might dwell on all the face of the earth, having marked out their appointed times, and the bounds of their dwelling:

I the lord

saying: What you see, write in a book, and send to the seven churches; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

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

With the

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and his name shall be called Immanuel, which, when translated, is, God with us.

teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and lo; I am with you all the days, even to the end of the age.

General references

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

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