I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
- BSB I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
- NKJV I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
- NASB I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
- NLT I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
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Cross-references · 7
- Rev 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
- Rev 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
- Isa 48:12“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
- Isa 41:4Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
- Rev 1:17When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
- Rev 1:11saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
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