Revelation 5:1

World English Bible (2000)

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

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  • Ezek 2:9-9 : 9 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein; 10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
  • Isa 29:11 : 11 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"
  • Rev 5:7 : 7 Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.
  • Rev 5:13 : 13 I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!"
  • Rev 6:1 : 1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"
  • Rev 10:2 : 2 He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land.
  • Dan 12:4-9 : 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased." 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on the river bank on this side, and the other on the river bank on that side. 6 One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. 8 I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things? 9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
  • Rev 4:3 : 3 that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
  • Isa 8:16 : 16 Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.
  • Rev 10:8-9 : 8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land." 9 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." 10 I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. 11 They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."
  • Isa 34:16 : 16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
  • Dan 8:26 : 26 The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come].

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  • Rev 5:2-9
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    88%

    2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?"

    3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.

    4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it.

    5 One of the elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals."

    6 I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

    7 Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.

    8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

    9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

  • Rev 6:1-2
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    1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"

    2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.

  • 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 15:5
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    5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

  • Rev 10:4-5
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    4 When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don't write them."

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

  • Rev 6:9
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    9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

  • Rev 4:1-2
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    1 After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, "Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this."

    2 Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

  • Rev 6:7
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    7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"

  • Rev 4:5-6
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    5 Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

    6 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

  • Rev 14:1
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    1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

  • Rev 7:1-2
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    1 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

    2 I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

  • Zech 5:1
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    1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

  • Rev 10:8
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    8 The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."

  • Rev 22:10
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    10 He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

  • Rev 19:11
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    11 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

  • Rev 21:5
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  • Rev 15:1-2
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    1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God's wrath is finished.

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  • Rev 1:16-17
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    16 He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

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  • Rev 8:1-2
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    1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

    2 I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

  • Ezek 2:9-10
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    72%

    9 When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;

    10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • Rev 5:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

    11 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;

    12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!"

    13 I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!"

  • Rev 1:3
    72%

    3 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.

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  • Rev 1:10-12
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    10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

    11 saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

    12 I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands.

  • Rev 7:9
    71%

    9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

  • Rev 20:11-12
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    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.

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    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.

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