Revelation 5:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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!"
  • Isa 40:13-14 : 13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor? 14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
  • Isa 41:28 : 28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
  • Rom 11:34 : 34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

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

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  • Rev 5:1-2
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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.

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

  • 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 10:5-6
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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,

    6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

  • 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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  • Rev 5:7-13
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    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,

    10 and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth."

    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 10:2
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  • Rev 6:9-10
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  • 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,

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  • Rev 14:5
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    5 In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

  • Rev 11:19
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