Revelation 20:1

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Luke 8:31

And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,

Jude 1:6

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

Revelation 1:18

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

Revelation 10:1

Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.

Revelation 18:1

After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.

Revelation 20:3

The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)