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Bible Verses About Alpha And Omega

Early Christians commonly identified Alpha and Omega with Christ or the Lord himself, especially in Revelation’s own wording. Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, and Origen all connect the title to Jesus, with several saying it means he is the beginning and the end or that all things come from him. A second, narrower stream of early Christian writing uses Alpha and Omega in odd numerology or as a way to attack heretical number schemes, especially in Irenaeus and Hippolytus.

The strongest evidence is broad for Christ’s divine title, while the symbolic-number material is real but secondary and often tied to anti-heretical discussion.

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1 Revelation 22:13 2 Revelation 1:8 3 Revelation 1:11 4 Revelation 21:6 5 Revelation 3:14 6 John 1:1 7 Revelation 2:8 8 Isaiah 41:4 9 Isaiah 48:12 10 John 1:2

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Revelation 22:13 primary

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

Direct Revelation passage naming the speaker Alpha and Omega

Revelation 1:8

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.

Direct Revelation passage with Alpha and Omega, beginning and ending

Revelation 1:11

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Direct passage using Alpha and Omega, First and Last

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.

Direct passage with Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End

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Revelation 3:14

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

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John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Revelation 2:8

And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

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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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Isaiah 48:12

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

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John 1:2

The same was in the beginning with God.

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Luke 13:30

And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

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Mark 10:31

But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

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Matthew 19:30

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

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Matthew 20:16

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

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