¹² Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.

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.

¹³ I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.

³ Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

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.

³ Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

¹ Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:

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

¹⁴ These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.

⁸ And to the angel of the church in Smyrna say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living:

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.

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.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

²⁴ So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

³² Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

¹ Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.

¹¹ I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.

¹ Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

⁴ Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.

⁷ Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

⁶ Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

³⁹ See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.