| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne. There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And I saw a strong angel, who shouted with a loud voice: “Who is worthy to break the seals on this scroll and open it?” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and read it. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David’s throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then I saw a Lamb that looked as if it had been slaughtered, but it was now standing between the throne and the four living beings and among the twenty-four elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the sevenfold Spirit of God that is sent out into every part of the earth. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He stepped forward and took the scroll from the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And when he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And you have caused them to become a Kingdom of priests for our God. And they will reign on the earth.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then I looked again, and I heard the voices of thousands and millions of angels around the throne and of the living beings and the elders. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And they sang in a mighty chorus: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered— to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. They sang: “Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And the four living beings said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped the Lamb. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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