Revelation 5:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”

Cross References

Job 41:15

Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal.

Psalm 103:20

Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, obedient to his spoken word.

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 18:21

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “With such violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down and will be found no more;

Revelation 5:1

Then I saw in the right hand of the one seated on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals,

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”