Revelation 5:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice:“Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 29:11-12 : 11 To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.” 12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”
  • Isa 41:22-23 : 22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events! 23 Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.
  • Rev 5:5 : 5 Then one of the elders said to me,“Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
  • Rev 18:21 : 21 Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,“With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!
  • Ps 103:20 : 20 Praise the LORD, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!
  • Rev 10:1 : 1 The Angel with the Little Scroll Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rev 5:1
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    1The Opening of the Scroll Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals.

  • Rev 5:3-9
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    3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

    4So I began weeping bitterly because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

    5Then one of the elders said to me,“Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

    6Then I saw standing in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb that appeared to have been killed. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

    7Then he came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne,

    8and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense(which are the prayers of the saints).

    9They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

  • Rev 7:1-3
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    1The Sealing of the 144,000 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

    2Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

    3“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

  • Rev 6:1-3
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    1The Seven Seals I looked on when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a thunderous voice,“Come!”

    2So I looked, and here came a white horse! The one who rode it had a bow, and he was given a crown, and as a conqueror he rode out to conquer.

    3Then when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying,“Come!”

  • Rev 5:11-13
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    11Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels in a circle around the throne, as well as the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand– thousands times thousands–

    12all of whom were singing in a loud voice:“Worthy is the lamb who was killed to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and praise!”

    13Then I heard every creature– in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and all that is in them– singing:“To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise, honor, glory, and ruling power forever and ever!”

  • Rev 10:1-5
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    1The Angel with the Little Scroll Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.

    2He held in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land.

    3Then he shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded their voices.

    4When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but just then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.”

    5Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

  • Rev 6:9-10
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    9Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

    10They cried out with a loud voice,“How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”

  • Rev 15:5
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    5After these things I looked, and the temple(the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

  • Rev 6:7
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    7Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying,“Come!”

  • Rev 22:10
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    10Then he said to me,“Do not seal up the words of the prophecy contained in this book, because the time is near.

  • Rev 10:8
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    8Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again,“Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

  • Rev 8:1-2
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    1The Seventh Seal Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

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

  • Rev 9:1
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    1Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.

  • Rev 4:1-2
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    1The Amazing Scene in Heaven After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said:“Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things.”

    2Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

  • Rev 14:6
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    6Three Angels and Three Messages Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, and he had an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth– to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

  • Rev 18:1
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    1Babylon is Destroyed After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.

  • Rev 20:1
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    1The Thousand Year Reign Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

  • Rev 15:1
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    1The Final Plagues Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues(they are final because in them God’s anger is completed).

  • Rev 7:10
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    10They were shouting out in a loud voice,“Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

  • Rev 14:1-2
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    1An Interlude: The Song of the 144,000 Then I looked, and here was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand, who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.

    2I also heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. Now the sound I heard was like that made by harpists playing their harps,

  • Rev 22:8
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    8I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things, and when I heard and saw them, I threw myself down to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.

  • Zech 5:1
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    1Vision Six: The Flying Scroll Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

  • Rev 19:11
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    11The Son of God Goes to War Then I saw heaven opened and here came a white horse! The one riding it was called“Faithful” and“True,” and with justice he judges and goes to war.

  • Rev 8:5
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    5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

  • Rev 20:11
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    11The Great White Throne Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

  • Rev 1:1-3
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    1¶ The Prologue The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must happen very soon. He made it clear by sending his angel to his servant John,

    2who then testified to everything that he saw concerning the word of God and the testimony about Jesus Christ.

    3Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

  • Rev 9:13
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    13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

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    17When I saw him I fell down at his feet as though I were dead, but he placed his right hand on me and said:“Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,