Revelation 20:1

American Standard Version (1901)

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
  • Rev 10:1 : 1 And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire;
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
  • Rev 9:1-2 : 1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. 2 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
  • Rev 18:1 : 1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
  • Luke 8:31 : 31 And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rev 20:2-4
    3 verses
    85%

    2And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

    3and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.

    4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

  • Rev 9:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.

    2And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

  • Rev 18:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

    2And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.

  • Rev 10:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire;

    2and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth;

  • Rev 20:6-11
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    74%

    6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

    7And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

    8and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

    9And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them.

    10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

    11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

  • Rev 12:9
    73%

    9And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

  • Rev 10:5
    72%

    5And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven,

  • Rev 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals.

    2And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

  • Rev 7:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1After his I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.

    2And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

  • Rev 14:6
    70%

    6And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

  • Rev 14:17-19
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    69%

    17Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

    18And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

    19And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress, the great [winepress], of the wrath of God.

  • Rev 17:8
    69%

    8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

  • Rev 8:5
    69%

    5And the angel taketh the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

  • Rev 19:20
    69%

    20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

  • Rev 12:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. [

    13And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman that brought forth the man [child] .

  • Rev 9:11
    69%

    11They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.

  • Rev 1:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

    18and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

  • Rev 10:8
    68%

    8And the voice which I heard from heaven, [I heard it] again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

  • Rev 18:21
    68%

    21And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.

  • Rev 12:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.

    4And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.

  • Rev 19:17
    68%

    17And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of God;

  • Rev 4:1
    68%

    1After 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 hither, and I will show thee the things which must [ come to pass hereafter.

  • Rev 21:10
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    10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

  • Rev 15:1
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    1And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having seven plagues, [which are] the last, for in them is finished the wrath of God.

  • Rev 20:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

    14And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.

  • Matt 28:2
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    2And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.

  • Rev 12:7
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    7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels [going forth] to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;

  • Rev 13:13
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    13And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.

  • Rev 13:11
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    11And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

  • Rev 12:16
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    16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

  • Rev 9:14
    68%

    14one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

  • Jude 1:6
    68%

    6And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.