Revelation 5:1

The Passion Translation

And I saw that the one seated on the throne was holding in his right hand an unopened scroll with writing on the inside and on the outside, and it was sealed with seven seals.

Cross References

Isaiah 29:11

This entire prophetic revelation will become to you like the words of a sealed book. If it’s given to one who can read it with the command “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t because it is sealed.”

Isaiah 34:16

Seek for Yahweh’s book and read it carefully. You will learn that none of these prophecies will fail; none will lack a fulfillment as its companion. For the Lord has issued his decree. It is his Spirit that has gathered them.

Isaiah 8:16

Now, tie up the scroll and preserve it as legal evidence. Seal my instructions for the future for my disciples.

Daniel 8:26

“The explanation of the vision you had about the evening and morning sacrifices is absolutely true. And seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”

Revelation 10:2

He held an opened scroll in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land

Revelation 4:3

His appearance was sparkling like crystal and glowing like a carnelian gemstone. Surrounding the throne was a circle of green light, like an emerald rainbow.

Revelation 4:9

And whenever the living creatures gave glory, honor, and thanks to the One who is enthroned and who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 5:13

Then every living being joined the angelic choir. Every creature in heaven and on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and everything in them, were worshiping with one voice, saying: “Praise, honor, glory, and dominion be to God-Enthroned and to Christ the Lamb forever and ever!”

Revelation 5:7

I saw the young Lamb approach the throne and take the scroll from the right hand of the one who sat there.

Revelation 6:1

Then I watched as the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals. Immediately I heard one of the four living creatures call out with a powerful voice of revelation sounding like thunder, saying, “Come forth!”

Revelation 6:16

They called out to the mountains and the boulders, saying, “Fall on us at once! Hide us quickly from the glorious face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 8:1

When the Lamb broke open the seventh seal, heaven fell silent for about half an hour.