Revelation 1:10-18

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁰ I was in the Spirit^[a](A) on the Lord’s day, and I heard a loud voice behind me like a trumpet^{(B) 11} saying, “Write^(C) on a scroll^[b] what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

¹² Then I turned to see whose voice^(D) it was that spoke to me. When I turned I saw seven golden lampstands,^{(E) 13} and among the lampstands was one like the Son of Man,^[c](F) dressed in a robe^(G) and with a golden sash wrapped around his chest.^{(H) 14} The hair of his head was white as wool—white as snow^(I)—and his eyes like a fiery flame.^{(J) 15} His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace,^(K) and his voice like the sound of cascading^[d] waters.^{(L) 16} He had seven stars in his right hand; a sharp double-edged sword came from his mouth,^(M) and his face was shining like the sun at full strength.^(N)

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man.^(O) He laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid. I am the First and the Last,^{(P) 18} and the Living One.^(Q) I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever,^(R) and I hold the keys^(S) of death and Hades.