Revelation 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ And I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And I wept audibly and bitterly because no one was found fit to open the scroll or to inspect it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:

Common English Bible

⁴ So I began to weep and weep, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look inside it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And I wept greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it.

Revelation 5:4 Cross References

Revelation 4:1

After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

Revelation 5:3

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

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”