Revelation 1:4-8 - Greetings To The Churches

⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia: spiritual blessing and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven spirits that are before His throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Sovereign of the kings of the earth. To Him who ever loves us and once for all released us from our sins by His blood, ⁶ and has made us a kingdom of priests for His God and Father: to Him be glory forever. Amen.

⁷ See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even the men who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over Him. Even so. Amen.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come, the Almighty.