Revelation 20:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,

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  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast `them' down to Tartarus, did deliver `them' to judgment, having been reserved,
  • Rev 10:1 : 1 And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
  • Rev 9:1-2 : 1 And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss, 2 and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.
  • Rev 18:1 : 1 And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory,
  • Luke 8:31 : 31 and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to 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, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

    3and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.

    4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

  • Rev 9:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

    2and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

  • Rev 18:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory,

    2and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became 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 messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,

    2and he had in his hand a little scroll opened, and he did place his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the land,

  • Rev 20:6-11
    6 verses
    74%

    6Happy and holy `is' he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

    7And when the thousand years may be finished, the Adversary shall be loosed out of his prison,

    8and he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are in the four corners of the earth -- Gog and Magog -- to gather them together to war, of whom the number `is' as the sand of the sea;

    9and they did go up over the breadth of the land, and did surround the camp of the saints, and the beloved city, and there came down fire from God out of the heaven, and devoured them;

    10and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where `are' the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night -- to the ages of the ages.

    11And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;

  • Rev 12:9
    73%

    9and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

  • Rev 10:5
    72%

    5And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven,

  • Rev 5:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;

    2and I saw a strong messenger crying with a great voice, `Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose the seals of it?'

  • Rev 7:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree;

    2and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,

  • Rev 14:6
    70%

    6And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

  • Rev 14:17-19
    3 verses
    69%

    17And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that `is' in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,

    18and another messenger did come forth out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, `Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because come to perfection have her grapes;'

    19and the messenger did put forth his sickle to the earth, and did gather the vine of the earth, and did cast `it' to the great wine-press of the wrath of God;

  • Rev 17:8
    69%

    8`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.

  • Rev 8:5
    69%

    5and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast `it' to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

  • Rev 19:20
    69%

    20and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast -- the two -- to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

  • Rev 12:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12because of this be glad, ye heavens, and those in them who do tabernacle; wo to those inhabiting the land and the sea, because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath, having known that he hath little time.'

    13And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,

  • Rev 9:11
    69%

    11and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the abyss -- a name `is' to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

  • Rev 1:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

    18and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

  • Rev 10:8
    68%

    8And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again speaking with me, and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing upon the sea, and upon the land:'

  • Rev 18:21
    68%

    21And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast `it' to the sea, saying, `Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;

  • Rev 12:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems,

    4and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;

  • Rev 19:17
    68%

    17And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God,

  • Rev 4:1
    68%

    1After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard `is' as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;'

  • Rev 21:10
    68%

    10and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,

  • Rev 15:1
    68%

    1And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful, seven messengers having the seven last plagues, because in these was completed the wrath of God,

  • Rev 20:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

    14and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire -- this `is' the second death;

  • Matt 28:2
    68%

    2and lo, there came a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come, did roll away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it,

  • Rev 12:7
    68%

    7And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,

  • Rev 13:13
    68%

    13and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to come down from the heaven to the earth before men,

  • Rev 13:11
    68%

    11And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon,

  • Rev 12:16
    68%

    16and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast forth out of his mouth;

  • Rev 9:14
    68%

    14saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;'

  • Jude 1:6
    68%

    6messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,