Revelation 20:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Then I saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain.

Cross References

Luke 8:31

And they pleaded with him not to order them to depart to the abyss.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment;

Jude 1:6

The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 1:18

the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.

Revelation 10:1

Then I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven wrapped in a cloud, with a halo around his head; his face was like the sun and his feet were like pillars of fire.

Revelation 18:1

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth became illumined by his splendor.

Revelation 20:3

and threw it into the abyss, which he locked over it and sealed, so that it could no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years are completed. After this, it is to be released for a short time.