Revelation 5:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I cried hard because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or see inside it.

Cross References

Revelation 4:1

After this, I looked and saw a door that opened into heaven. Then the voice that had spoken to me at first and that sounded like a trumpet said, “Come up here! I will show you what must happen next.”

Revelation 5:3

No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or see inside it.

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.”