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Revelation 1:3 — compare English translations

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Blessed the one reading and the ones hearing the words of this prophecy and keeping the things having been written in it, for the time near.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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