Revelation 20:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN I saw an angel descending from heaven; he was holding the key of the Abyss (the bottomless pit) and a great chain was in his hand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

Common English Bible

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And I saw an Angel, descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a great chain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:1 Cross References

Luke 8:31

They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Revelation 10:1

And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun and his legs like pillars of fire.

Revelation 18:1

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined by his splendor.

Revelation 20:3

and threw him into the pit and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let out for a little while.