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Revelation 5:3–4

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

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Revelation 5:3–4 — The New International Version (NIV)

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.

Revelation 5:3–4 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

Revelation 5:3–4 — New Living Translation (NLT)

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it.

Then I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll and read it.

Revelation 5:3–4 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it.

Revelation 5:3–4 — New Century Version (NCV)

But there was no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth who could open the scroll or look inside it. I cried bitterly because there was no one who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.

Revelation 5:3–4 — American Standard Version (ASV)

And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:

Revelation 5:3–4 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it. And I wept much because no one had been found worthy to open the book nor to regard it.

Revelation 5:3–4 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

No one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it. I cried bitterly because no one was found who deserved to open the scroll or look inside it. 

Revelation 5:3–4 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it. And I cried and cried because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or even to look in it.

Revelation 5:3–4 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. And I began to weep bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

Revelation 5:3–4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. And I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.

Revelation 5:3–4 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll. No one could even look inside it.

I cried and cried because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.

Revelation 5:3–4 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.

Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it;


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