Rev 4
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After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice
that I heard, [a voice] as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up here,
and I will show you the things which must come to pass hereafter.
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Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and
one sitting upon the throne;
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and he who sat [was] to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and [there was]
a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.
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And round about the throne [were] four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones [I
saw] four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads
crowns of gold.
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And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And [there was]
seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
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and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst
of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before
and behind.
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And the first creature [was] like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and
the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature [was] like a flying
eagle.
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and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes
round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy,
holy, [is] the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
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And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him whom sits
on the throne, to him whom lives for ever and ever,
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the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him whom sits on the throne, and
shall worship him whom lives for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before
the throne, saying,
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Worthy are you, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power:
for you did create all things, and because of your will they were, and were created.