Revelation 2:8

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

saying, “Write in a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not fear; I am the first and the last,

and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

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

To the Church in Smyrna