and he made of one blood every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, determining their appointed times and the bounds of their habitation,

I the lord

saying, What you see write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus 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 lived,

I am the Alpha and the Omega, first and last, the beginning and end.

With the

Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel; which is interpreted, God is with us.

teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.

General references

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

I am the Alpha and the Omega, first and last, the beginning and end.