Revelation 5:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And I saw a strong angel announcing in a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the scroll? And [who is entitled and deserves and is morally fit] to break its seals?

American Standard Version (1901)

² And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Common English Bible

² I saw a powerful angel, who proclaimed in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And I saw a strong Angel, proclaiming with a great voice, "Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Revelation 5:2 Cross References

Job 41:15

His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.

Psalm 103:20

Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word!

Revelation 10:1

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

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So shall Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and shall be found no more;

Revelation 5:1

And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;

Revelation 5:5

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