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Revelation 1:3-5
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Revelation 1:3-5
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
3 Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near.
4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:[a]
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
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- 1.4-8 Describes the glorious coming and reign of the Messiah.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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