Revelation 20:2

World English Bible (2000)

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

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  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
  • John 12:31 : 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
  • John 16:11 : 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
  • Rom 16:20 : 20 And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • Rev 12:13 : 13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
  • Rev 12:15 : 15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
  • Rev 12:17 : 17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.
  • Rev 13:2 : 2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
  • Rev 13:4 : 4 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."
  • Luke 11:20-22 : 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you. 21 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
  • Isa 49:24-25 : 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? 25 But thus says Yahweh, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
  • Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
  • Job 1:7 : 7 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
  • Job 2:1-2 : 1 Again it happened on the day when the God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh. 2 Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
  • Rev 9:11 : 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."

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  • Rev 20:3-11
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    3 and 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 were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

    4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

    5 The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

    6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

    7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,

    8 and he will come out 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.

    9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

    10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

    11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

  • Rev 20:1
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    1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

  • Rev 12:3-10
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    3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

    4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

    5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

    6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

    7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.

    8 They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven.

    9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

    10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

  • Rev 12:12-17
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    12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."

    13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.

    14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

    15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

    16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.

    17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus' testimony.

  • Rev 19:19-20
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    19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.

    20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

  • Rev 10:2
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    2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.

  • Rev 13:1-2
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    1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

    2 The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

  • Rev 13:11
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    11 I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

  • Rev 13:4-5
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    4 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"

    5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

  • Isa 27:1
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    1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

  • Rev 9:1-2
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    1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

    2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

  • Rev 20:14
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    14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

  • Rev 10:5
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    5 The angel who I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

  • Rev 17:8
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    8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

  • Luke 4:5
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    5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

  • Rev 11:7
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    7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

  • Rev 13:7
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    7 It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
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    26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

  • Rev 17:3
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    3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

  • Rev 2:10
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    10 Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  • Rev 16:14
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    14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

  • Rev 14:19
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    19 The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

  • Rev 9:19
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    19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

  • Rev 13:13
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    13 He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.

  • 2 Thess 2:9
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    9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

  • 2 Pet 2:4
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    4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;