Revelation 5:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ And no one in heaven, or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look inside of it. [Note: “Under the earth” may refer to the spirit world].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ 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

Romans 11:34

[Note: The following are rhetorical questions raised from their reading of the Old Testament]. For who has known [what goes on in] the Lord’s mind? Or, who has been His advisor?

Philippians 2:10

[This was] so that, in [honor of] the name of Jesus, everyone’s knee in heaven, on earth and under the earth [i.e., all rational creatures] should bow [i.e., before God],

Revelation 5:13

And I heard every creature in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the ocean and everything in them, saying [See Note at 4:8], “May there be praise and honor and splendor and power forever and ever, to God who sits on His throne and to the Lamb.”

Revelation 5:4

And I cried bitterly because no one was found who deserved to open the book or to look inside of it.