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

saying, "That which you see, write in a book and send to the seven churches: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

And He said to me, " I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give from the spring of the water of life freely to him that is thirsty.

Who has performed and done these things? He has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, the first and to [all] futurity, I AM.

Thus says God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the First and I am the Last; beside Me there is no God.

Hear Me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I endure forever.