Revelation 1:1 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Jesus Christ’s revelation, which God gave Him to show to His slaves —the things that must occur shortly. And He communicated it, sending it by His angel to His slave John,

³² And to what He has seen and heard He testifies, yet no one receives His testimony.

²⁶ I have many things to say and to judge about you, but He who sent me is true, and what I myself have heard from Him—these things I say to the world.”

⁴⁹ because I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me, He gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

¹⁵ “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.

⁸ because I have given them the sayings which You have given to me; and they have received and known for sure that I came forth from You, and they have believed that You sent me.

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¹² because I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather it came through a revelation from Christ.

³ how that by revelation He made known to me the ‘secret’ (as I have written briefly already,

³ Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; because the time is near. ⁴ John, to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven-fold Spirit who is before His throne,

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the Word of God and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ Therefore write the things that you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that are going to occur after these.

¹ After these things I looked and wow —a door standing open in the sky, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here and I will show you the things that must take place after these.”

² And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

⁶ Then he says to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent His angel to show to His slaves the things that must shortly take place.

¹⁶ “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you, in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning Star.