1 Die openbaring van Jesus Christus wat God Hom gegee het om aan sy diensknegte te toon wat gou moet gebeur, en wat Hy deur die sending van sy engel aan sy dienskneg Johannes te kenne gegee het,

2 wat getuig het van die woord van God en die getuienis van Jesus Christus alles wat hy gesien het.

3 Salig is hy wat die woorde van die profesie lees, en die wat dit hoor en bewaar wat daarin geskrywe is, want die tyd is naby.

4 Johannes aan die sewe gemeentes in Asië: Genade vir julle en vrede van Hom wat is en wat was en wat kom, en van die sewe Geeste wat voor sy troon is,

5 en van Jesus Christus, die getroue getuie, die eersgeborene uit die dode en die Owerste oor die konings van die aarde! Aan Hom wat ons liefgehad het en ons van ons sondes gewas het in sy bloed

6 en ons gemaak het konings en priesters vir sy God en Vader, aan Hom die heerlikheid en die krag tot in alle ewigheid! Amen.

7 Kyk, Hy kom met die wolke, en elke oog sal Hom sien, ook hulle wat Hom deursteek het; en al die geslagte van die aarde sal oor Hom rou bedryf; ja, amen!

8 Ek is die Alfa en die Om,ga, die begin en die einde, sê die Here, wat is en wat was en wat kom, die Almagtige.

9 Ek, Johannes, julle broeder en deelgenoot in die verdrukking en in die koninkryk en lydsaamheid van Jesus Christus, was op die eiland wat Patmos genoem word, ter wille van die woord van God en om die getuienis van Jesus Christus.

10 Ek was in die Gees op die dag van die Here, en ek het agter my 'n groot stem gehoor, soos van 'n basuin, wat sê:

11 Ek is die Alfa en die Om,ga, die eerste en die laaste, en skryf wat jy sien in 'n boek en stuur dit na die sewe gemeentes wat in Asië is: na fese en Smirna en P,rgamus en Thiat¡re en Sardis en Filadelf¡a en Laodic,a.

12 Toe draai ek my om, om te sien watter stem met my gespreek het; en toe ek my omgedraai het, sien ek sewe goue kandelaars,

13 en tussen die sewe kandelaars Een soos die Seun van die mens met 'n kleed aan wat tot op die voete hang, en gegord om die bors met 'n goue gordel.

14 Sy hoof en hare was wit soos wit wol, soos sneeu, en sy oë soos 'n vuurvlam,

15 en sy voete soos blink koper wat gloei soos in 'n oond, en sy stem soos die stem van baie waters.

16 En in sy regterhand het Hy sewe sterre gehou, en 'n skerp tweesnydende swaard het uit sy mond uitgegaan, en sy aangesig was soos die son wat skyn in sy krag.

17 En toe ek Hom sien, val ek soos 'n dooie aan sy voete; en Hy het sy regterhand op my gelê en vir my gesê: Moenie vrees nie; Ek is die eerste en die laaste

18 en die lewende; en Ek was dood en kyk, Ek leef tot in alle ewigheid. Amen. En Ek het die sleutels van die doderyk en van die dood.

19 Skryf die dinge op wat jy gesien het, die wat is, sowel as die wat gaan gebeur;

20 die verborgenheid van die sewe sterre wat jy in my regterhand gesien het, en die sewe goue kandelaars: die sewe sterre is die engele van die sewe gemeentes, en die sewe kandelaars wat jy gesien het, is die sewe gemeentes.

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; 2 who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.

4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne; 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet 11 saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle. 14 And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. 19 Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter; 20 the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.