6. And he said to me, `These words [are] stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:
7. Lo, I come quickly; happy [is] he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.'
8. And I, John, am he who is seeing these things and hearing, and when I heard and beheld, I fell down to bow before the feet of the messenger who is shewing me these things;
9. and he saith to me, `See--not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'
10. And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;
11. he who is unrighteous--let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy--let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous--let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified-- let him be sanctified still:
12. And lo, I come quickly, and my reward [is] with me, to render to each as his work shall be;
13. I am the Alpha and the Omega--the Beginning and End--the First and the Last.
14. `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;