Revelation 20:3

The Text-Critical English New Testament

He threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it over him, so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed. After that he must be released for a short time.

Cross References

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

Matthew 27:66

So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard of soldiers.

Mark 4:15

Now some people are like the seed along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in their hearts.

Luke 8:31

And he begged Jesus not to command them to go away into the abyss.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds will be led astray from simple devotion to Christ.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

By the signs he was permitted to do in the presence of the first beast, he deceived my own people who dwell on the earth, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image of the first beast, who had the wound from the sword but still lived.

Revelation 17:2

With her the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and those who dwell on the earth have become drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

Revelation 17:8

The beast that yoʋ saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. Those who dwell on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see that the beast was and is not and is to come.

Revelation 20:1

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