Revelation 5:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Job 41:15

Its back is covered with shield after shield, firmly bound and closer together than breath to breath.

Psalm 103:20

All you mighty angels, who obey God's commands, come and praise your LORD!

Revelation 10:1

I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. This one was covered with a cloud, and a rainbow was over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like columns of fire,

Revelation 18:21

A powerful angel then picked up a huge stone and threw it into the sea. The angel said, “This is how the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to rise again.

Revelation 5:1

In the right hand of the one sitting on the throne I saw a scroll that had writing on the inside and on the outside. And it was sealed in seven places.

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying and look! The one who is called both the ‘Lion from the Tribe of Judah’ and ‘King David's Great Descendant’ has won the victory. He will open the book and its seven seals.”