Revelation 1:7-9

International Children’s Bible

⁷Look, Jesus is coming with the clouds! Everyone will see him, even those who stabbed him. And all peoples of the earth will cry loudly because of him. Yes, this will happen! Amen.

⁸The Lord God says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega.^[a] I am the One who is and was and is coming. I am the All-Powerful.”

⁹I am John, and I am your brother in Christ. We are together in Jesus, and we share in these things: in suffering, in the kingdom, and in patience. I was on the island of Patmos^[b] because I had preached God’s message and the truth about Jesus.

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Footnotes

1:8 the Alpha and the Omega The first and last letters in the Greek alphabet. This means “the beginning and the end.”
1:9 Patmos A small island in the Aegean Sea, near the coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).

Revelation 1:7-9

New International Version

⁷“Look, he is coming with the clouds,”^[a]^(A)
and “every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him”;^(B)
and all peoples on earth “will mourn^(C) because of him.”^[b]
So shall it be! Amen.

⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,”^(D) says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come,^(E) the Almighty.”^(F)

John’s Vision of Christ

⁹I, John,^(G) your brother and companion in the suffering^(H) and kingdom^(I) and patient endurance^(J) that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God^(K) and the testimony of Jesus.^(L)