Revelation 22:13
New International Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

New Living Translation
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

English Standard Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Berean Standard Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Berean Literal Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."

King James Bible
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

New King James Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

New American Standard Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

NASB 1995
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

NASB 1977
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Legacy Standard Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, THE FIRST AND THE LAST, the beginning and the end.”

Amplified Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End [the Eternal One].”

Christian Standard Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

American Standard Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“I am Alap and I am Tau, The First and The Last, The Origin and The Fulfillment.”

Contemporary English Version
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

English Revised Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I am the A and the Z, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Good News Translation
I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

International Standard Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

Literal Standard Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and End—the First and the Last.

Majority Standard Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

New American Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

NET Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)

New Revised Standard Version
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

New Heart English Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Weymouth New Testament
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

World English Bible
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Young's Literal Translation
I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End -- the First and the Last.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jesus is Coming
12“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” 14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.…

Cross References
Isaiah 41:4
Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD--the first and the last--I am He."

Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: "I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.

Isaiah 48:12
Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.

Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come--the Almighty.

Revelation 1:17
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

Revelation 2:8
To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.

Revelation 3:14
To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God's creation.


Treasury of Scripture

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

See on ch.

Revelation 1:8,11
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty…

Revelation 21:6
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Isaiah 41:4
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

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Revelation 22
1. The river of the water of life.
2. The tree of life.
5. The light of the city of God is himself.
7. Jesus Is Coming.
9. The angel will not be worshipped.
18. Nothing may be added to the word of God, nor taken away.














(13) I am Alpha . . .--Here (as in Revelation 21:6) we should render, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. (See Note as above, and comp. John 1:1; Isaiah 44:6.) The repetition of these glorious titles is not a mere idle repetition, or designed to give a rhetorical fulness to the peroration of the book: it is closely allied with the preceding thought. The warning has been given that men by continuing in sin (Revelation 22:11) are inviting against themselves the law by which act ripens to habit, and habit makes character, and character forms destiny. The moral laws set going by sin work thus:--Retribution is no dream: it is a terrible fact: it is written large over nature. But the eternal laws of God, though righteously ordered, are not God: the refuge from the eternal laws which we invoke against ourselves by our sin is to be found in the Eternal God: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." For those hunted by the wickedness of their own doings, God himself provides a refuge: underneath all laws are the everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 33:27). The next verses set the way of refuge and safety before us.

Verse 13. - I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last; the Alpha, etc. Reverse the position of the two last phrases. These words, which appropriately open and close the book (cf. Revelation 1:8), occur (like those in ver. 11 above) continually in Isaiah (see Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 48:12). All three titles are here combined, as if to finally gather up into one impressive assertion the titles hitherto used separately (cf. Revelation 1:8, 17; Revelation 2:8; Revelation 21:6). "The first title is symbolical; the second is borrowed from the Old Testament; the third is philosophical "('Speaker's Commentary').

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
I [am]
ἐγὼ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Alpha
Ἄλφα (Alpha)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1: Of Hebrew origin; the first letter of the alphabet.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Omega,
(Ō)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5598: Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet. The last letter of the Greek alphabet, i.e. the finality.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

First
πρῶτος (prōtos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4413: First, before, principal, most important. Contracted superlative of pro; foremost.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Last,
ἔσχατος (eschatos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2078: Last, at the last, finally, till the end. A superlative probably from echo; farthest, final.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Beginning
ἀρχὴ (archē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 746: From archomai; a commencement, or chief.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

End.”
τέλος (telos)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5056: (a) an end, (b) event or issue, (c) the principal end, aim, purpose, (d) a tax.


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