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The One on the throne said to me: “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega,[a] the Beginning and the End. I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to anyone who is thirsty. Anyone who wins the victory will receive this. And I will be his God, and he will be my son. But those who are cowards, who refuse to believe, who do evil things, who kill, who are sexually immoral, who do evil magic, who worship idols, and who tell lies—all these will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

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  1. 21:6 the Alpha and the Omega The first and last letters in the Greek alphabet. This means “the beginning and the end.”

He said to me: “It is done.(A) I am the Alpha and the Omega,(B) the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost(C) from the spring of the water of life.(D) Those who are victorious(E) will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.(F) But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars(G)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.(H) This is the second death.”(I)

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