Revelation 5:1

New American Bible - revised edition

I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who sat on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.

Cross References

Isaiah 29:11

For you the vision of all this has become like the words of a sealed scroll. When it is handed to one who can read, with the request, “Read this,” the reply is, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Isaiah 34:16

Search through the book of the Lord and read: not one of these shall be lacking, For the mouth of the Lord has ordered it, and his spirit gathers them there.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up my testimony, seal the instruction with my disciples.

Daniel 8:26

As for the vision of the evenings and the mornings, what was spoken is true. But you, keep this vision secret: it is for the distant future.”

Zechariah 5:1

Then I raised my eyes again and saw a flying scroll.

Revelation 10:2

In his hand he held a small scroll that had been opened. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 4:3

one whose appearance sparkled like jasper and carnelian. Around the throne was a halo as brilliant as an emerald.

Revelation 4:9

Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 5:13

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, everything in the universe, cry out: “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.”

Revelation 5:7

He came and received the scroll from the right hand of the one who sat on the throne.

Revelation 6:1

Then I watched while the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures cry out in a voice like thunder, “Come forward.”

Revelation 6:16

They cried out to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 8:1

When he broke open the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.