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Revelation 1:1–4
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Revelation 1:1
1THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1¶ The Reuelation of Iesus Christ, which God gaue vnto him, to shewe vnto his seruants things which must shortly come to passe; and he sent and signified it by his Angel vnto his seruant Iohn,
Revelation 1:2
2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimonie of Iesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Revelation 1:3
3Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
3Blessed is hee that readeth, and they that heare the words of this prophesie, and keepe those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Revelation 1:4
4JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
4Iohn to the seuen Churches in Asia, Grace be vnto you, & peace, from him *which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seuen spirits which are before his throne:
- Exo. 3.14.
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DEFINED WORDS
Revelation 1:1
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
Revelation
The disclosure of Jesus Christ, given to show his servants things to come to pass.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Bestowed, delivered, granted, or caused, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Soon, in a short time, or briefly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To make known, declare, indicate, or express by words or signs.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A messenger; especially a heavenly messenger sent by God.
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One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Revelation 1:2
Uncovered or naked; also carried, endured, or produced, according to context.
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A written or remembered account; testimony; also to set down or bear witness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Witness, evidence, or solemn declaration; also a divine command or revealed witness, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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DEFINED WORDS
Revelation 1:3
Favored by God; happy or spiritually prosperous; or praised, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
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To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
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Revelation 1:4
The number following six and preceding eight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
The Roman province of Asia in western Asia Minor, as named in the New Testament.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A royal seat; by extension, sovereign rule or authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
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Open the full verse study6And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
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Open the full verse study12For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study7Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
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Open the full verse study28But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
29As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.
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Open the full verse study19Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
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Open the full verse study3How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
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Open the full verse study9I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
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Open the full verse study14The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
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Open the full verse study23At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
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Open the full verse study32And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
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Open the full verse study8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
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Open the full verse study16And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
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Open the full verse study21Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
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Open the full verse study1AFTER this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
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Open the full verse study49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
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Open the full verse study26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
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Open the full verse study3Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
4JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
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Open the full verse study25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
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Open the full verse study2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study35And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
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Open the full verse study6Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
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Open the full verse study1THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
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Open the full verse study24This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
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Open the full verse study19Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
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Open the full verse study17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study16But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
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Open the full verse study9I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
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Open the full verse study1AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
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Open the full verse study14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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Open the full verse study7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
8And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
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Open the full verse study20For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
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Open the full verse study17The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
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Open the full verse study32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
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Open the full verse study11Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
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Open the full verse study15For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
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Open the full verse study11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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Open the full verse study12Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
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Open the full verse study28But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
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Open the full verse study10And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
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Open the full verse study11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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Open the full verse study7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
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Open the full verse study34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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Open the full verse study6And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
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Open the full verse study12Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
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Open the full verse study8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
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Open the full verse study12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
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Open the full verse study8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Open the full verse study20He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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Open the full verse study2And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
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Open the full verse study1IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Open the full verse study8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
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Open the full verse study2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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Open the full verse study6And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
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Open the full verse study5And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
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Open the full verse study8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
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Open the full verse study1AND unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
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Open the full verse study17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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Open the full verse study10For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
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Open the full verse study14And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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Open the full verse study4Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.
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Open the full verse study8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
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Open the full verse study11Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
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Open the full verse study9For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
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Open the full verse study10And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
11They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
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Open the full verse study15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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Open the full verse study2But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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Open the full verse study7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
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Open the full verse study7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
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Open the full verse study4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
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Open the full verse study1PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
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Open the full verse study12And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
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Open the full verse study8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
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Open the full verse study3Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study2Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study10And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
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Open the full verse study1THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
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Open the full verse study18And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
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Open the full verse study14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
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Open the full verse study5And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
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