Revelation 20:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Psalm 90:4

A thousand years in your eyes are merely a day gone by, Before a watch passes in the night,

Daniel 6:17

So the king ordered Daniel to be brought and cast into the lions’ den. To Daniel he said, “Your God, whom you serve so constantly, must save you.”

Matthew 24:24

False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect.

Matthew 27:66

So they went and secured the tomb by fixing a seal to the stone and setting the guard.

Mark 4:15

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them.

Luke 8:31

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

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.

Revelation 13:14

It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived.

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth have had intercourse with her, and the inhabitants of the earth became drunk on the wine of her harlotry.”

Revelation 17:8

The beast that you saw existed once but now exists no longer. It will come up from the abyss and is headed for destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world shall be amazed when they see the beast, because it existed once but exists no longer, and yet it will come again.

Revelation 20:1

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