Revelation 20:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

Cross References

Luke 8:31

They begged him not to order them to go back into the abyss.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Revelation 10:1

And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun and his legs like pillars of fire.

Revelation 18:1

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

Revelation 20:3

and threw him into the pit and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let out for a little while.