Revelation 20:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement;

Jude 1:6

And angels which kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgement of the great day.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Revelation 10:1

And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire;

Revelation 18:1

After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

Revelation 20:3

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.