Revelation 5:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Then I saw a mighty angel who proclaimed in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

Cross References

Job 41:15

The folds of his flesh stick together, it is cast over him and immovable.

Psalm 103:20

Bless the Lord, all you his angels, mighty in strength, acting at his behest, obedient to his command.

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 18:21

A mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea and said: “With such force will Babylon the great city be thrown down, and will never be found again.

Revelation 5:1

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.

Revelation 5:5

One of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed, enabling him to open the scroll with its seven seals.”