Revelation 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:11-12 : 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:" 12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."
  • Isa 41:22-23 : 22 "Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come. 23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
  • Rev 5:5 : 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."
  • Rev 18:21 : 21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
  • Ps 103:20 : 20 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
  • Rev 10:1 : 1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

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  • Rev 5:1
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    1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.

  • Rev 5:3-9
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    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 7:1-3
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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,

    3 saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"

  • Rev 6:1-3
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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.

    3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!"

  • Rev 5:11-13
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    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 10:1-5
    5 verses
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    1 I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

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

    3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

    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 6:9-10
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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.

    10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

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

  • 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 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 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.

  • Rev 9:1
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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.

  • 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 14:6
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    6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

  • Rev 18:1
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    1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.

  • 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 15:1
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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.

  • Rev 7:10
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    10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

  • Rev 14:1-2
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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.

    2 I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

  • Rev 22:8
    71%

    8 Now I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.

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

  • 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 8:5
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    5 The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.

  • Rev 20:11
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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.

  • Rev 1:1-3
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    1 This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

    2 who testified to God's word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

    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.

  • Rev 9:13
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    13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

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    17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,