Revelation 1:3-5

New King James Version

^3 (A)Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for ^(B)the time is near.

Greeting the Seven Churches

⁴ John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from Him ^(C)who is and ^(D)who was and who is to come, ^(E)and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, ^(F)the faithful ^(G)witness, the ^(H)firstborn from the dead, and ^(I)the ruler over the kings of the earth.

To Him ^(J)who ^[a]loved us ^(K)and washed us from our sins in His own blood,