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Revelation 5:3 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it. "
Revelation 5:3
Verse in Context
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1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.
2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”
3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
4 Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
5 One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
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Revelation 5:1
"I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals."
Revelation 5:2
"I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”"
Revelation 5:4
"Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it."
Revelation 5:5
"One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”"
Revelation 5:6
"I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth."
Revelation 5:7
"Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne."
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