⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

⁶ For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹² They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

⁸ I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

⁵⁷ Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

⁶ The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

⁴ Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

⁴ For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

²⁷ But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.

²⁸ The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.

¹¹ Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.