Revelation 5

1I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.Cross-references: Isa 8:16 · Isa 29:11 · Isa 34:16 · Ezek 2:9 · Dan 8:26 · Dan 12:4 · +6 more

2I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”Cross-references: Ps 103:20 · Isa 29:11 · Isa 41:22 · Rev 5:5 · Rev 10:1 · Rev 18:21

3No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.Cross-references: Isa 40:13 · Isa 41:28 · Rom 11:34 · Rev 5:13

4Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.Cross-references: Dan 12:8 · Rev 4:1

5One 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.”Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Num 24:9 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 11:10 · Jer 23:5 · Jer 31:16 · +13 more

6I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:10 · 2Chr 16:9 · Isa 53:7 · Dan 7:14 · Mic 4:13 · Hab 3:4 · +20 more

7Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.Cross-references: Rev 4:2 · Rev 5:1

8Now 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.Cross-references: Ps 33:2 · Ps 43:4 · Ps 81:2 · Ps 141:2 · Ps 150:3 · John 5:23 · +14 more

9They 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,Cross-references: Ps 33:3 · Ps 40:3 · Ps 96:1 · Ps 98:1 · Ps 144:9 · Ps 149:1 · +29 more

10and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”Cross-references: Ex 19:6 · Dan 7:18 · Dan 7:27 · 1Pet 2:5 · Rev 1:6 · Rev 20:6 · +1 more

11I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · 1Ki 22:19 · 2Ki 6:16 · Ps 68:17 · Ps 103:20 · Ps 148:2 · +9 more

12saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”Cross-references: Zech 13:7 · Matt 28:18 · John 1:29 · John 3:35 · John 17:2 · 2Cor 8:9 · +9 more

13I 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!”Cross-references: 1Chr 29:11 · Ps 72:18 · Ps 96:11 · Ps 148:2 · Isa 24:14 · Isa 42:10 · +20 moreExamined: Arianism →

14The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.Cross-references: Rev 4:9 · Rev 5:6 · Rev 5:8 · Rev 7:12 · Rev 19:4