Revelation 5:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth [in the realm of the dead, Hades] was able to open the scroll or to take a [single] look at its contents.

American Standard Version (1901)

And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.

Common English Bible

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And no one was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to gaze upon it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And no man was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look on it.

Revelation 5:3 Cross References

Isaiah 41:28

But when I look there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.

Romans 11:34

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

Philippians 2:10

so that at the name given to Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Revelation 5:13

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

Revelation 5:4

And I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.