Revelation 1:3-5

New American Standard Bible

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

Message to the Seven Churches

^4 (C)John to ^(D)the seven churches that are in ^(E)Asia: ^(F)Grace to you and peace from ^(G)Him who is, and who was, and who ^[b]is to come, and from ^(H)the ^[c]seven spirits who are before His throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, ^(I)the faithful witness, the ^(J)firstborn of the dead, and the ^(K)ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who ^(L)loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—