⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

⁶ "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

¹² As a mantle you will roll them up, And they will be changed; But you are the same. Your years will not fail."

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega,{TR adds "the Beginning and the End"}" says the Lord God,{TR omits "God"} "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."

⁵⁷ The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

² Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever you had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

⁶ Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

⁴ Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.

⁴ John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

¹⁷ When 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,

¹⁸ and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."

¹⁷ But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, His righteousness to children's children;

⁴ For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.

²⁷ But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

²⁸ The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you."

¹¹ saying, "{TR adds "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last."}What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies{TR adds "which are in Asia"}: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."