But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

When Josnt woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took his wife,

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Josnt in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him."

But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Josnt in Egypt,

And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

And the angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

The angel went to her and said, "Hail, O highly favored one, the Lord is with you!"

And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

And Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?"

And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

Then Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.

Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

An angel appeared to him from heaven, and strengthened him.

The crowd standing by heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, and brought them out, and said,

And fixing their gaze on him, all who were sitting in the Council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

This Moses whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to us.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is a desert road.

About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had just come in and said to him, "Cornelius!"

When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to hear what you have to say."

And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and bring Simon, who is also called Peter;

And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter's side and woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands.

And the angel said to him, "Dress yourself and put on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me."

So he went out and followed him; and he did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went out and passed on through one street; and immediately the angel left him.

When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."

They said to her, "You are out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

There occurred a great uproar; and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, "We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"

For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you what I wish you to be, and you may not find me what you wish me to be; I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed!

and though my fleshly condition was a trial to you, you did not despise or scorn me, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus himself.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or quarreling.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger,

for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place. And he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands:

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'These are the words of the First and the Last, who died, and came to life:

"And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'These are the words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword:

"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'These are the words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze:

"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead.

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'These are the words of him who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens:

"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation:

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?"

Then I saw another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and he called out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the earth and sea,

Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. And he was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand.

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,

The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them darkened. And a third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star which had fallen from heaven to earth; and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit.

They have as king over them the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,

but in the days of the trumpet of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God will be finished, as he announced to his servants the prophets.

Then the voice which I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll which is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

So I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take it and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."

I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; but when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."

Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

And another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all the nations drink the wine of her impure passion."

And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If any one worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

he also will drink of the wine of God's wrath, which is poured in full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe."

And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

Then another angel came out from the altar, the one who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe."

So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and foul and loathsome sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshipped his image.

The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.

The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.

And I heard the angel of the waters say, "Righteous are you, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you judged these things;

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness; men gnawed their tongues in agony

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the East.