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1I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.Cross-references: Luke 8:31 · 2Pet 2:4 · Jude 1:6 · Rev 1:18 · Rev 9:1 · Rev 10:1 · +1 more

2He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Job 1:7 · Job 2:1 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 49:24 · Matt 8:29 · +17 more

3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.Cross-references: Ps 90:4 · Dan 6:17 · Matt 24:24 · Matt 27:66 · 2Cor 11:3 · 2Cor 11:13 · +9 more

4I 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.Cross-references: Dan 2:44 · Dan 7:9 · Dan 7:18 · Dan 7:22 · Dan 7:27 · Mal 4:5 · +29 more

5The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.Cross-references: Ezek 37:2 · Luke 14:14 · Rom 11:15 · Phil 3:11 · Rev 11:11 · Rev 11:15 · +2 more

6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.Cross-references: Isa 4:3 · Isa 61:6 · Dan 12:12 · Luke 14:15 · Rom 8:17 · Rom 12:1 · +11 more

7And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prisonCross-references: Rev 20:2

8and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.Cross-references: Judg 7:12 · 1Sam 13:5 · 1Ki 4:20 · Isa 10:22 · Jer 33:22 · Ezek 38:1 · +4 more

9They went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Ex 9:23 · Lev 10:2 · Num 11:1 · Num 16:35 · 2Ki 1:10 · +24 more

10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.Cross-references: Matt 25:41 · Matt 25:46 · Rev 14:10 · Rev 16:13 · Rev 19:20 · Rev 20:2 · +2 more

11I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place for them.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Job 9:6 · Ps 9:7 · Ps 14:6 · Ps 47:8 · Ps 89:14 · +16 more

12I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.Cross-references: Ps 28:4 · Ps 62:12 · Ps 69:28 · Prov 24:12 · Prov 24:29 · Eccl 12:14 · +26 more

13The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.Cross-references: Isa 26:19 · Hos 13:14 · John 5:28 · 1Cor 15:50 · Rev 1:18 · Rev 6:8 · +2 more

14Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.Cross-references: Hos 13:14 · 1Cor 15:26 · 1Cor 15:53 · Rev 1:18 · Rev 19:20 · Rev 20:6 · +5 more

15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.Cross-references: Matt 13:42 · Matt 13:50 · Matt 25:41 · Mark 9:43 · Mark 16:16 · John 3:18 · +8 more

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