15 Bible Verses about Opening Documents

And I saw a mighty angel announcing in a loud voice, "Who is fit to open the roll and break its seals?"

But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! See! The lion who is of the tribe of Judah, of the line of David, has been victorious so that he can open the roll and break its seals."

And the roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he unrolled it and found the place where it says,

But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth could open the roll or look into it. Then I cried bitterly because no one could be found fit to open the roll or look into it.

Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the roll and open its seals, for you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought for God men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation,

and he had a little scroll open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,

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

I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done.

In my vision, when the Lamb broke the first of the seven seals, I heard the first of the four animals say with a voice like thunder, "Come!"

When he broke the second seal, I heard the second animal say, "Come!"

When he broke the third seal, I heard the third animal say, "Come!" And there I saw a black horse, and its rider had a pair of scales in his hand,

When he broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth animal say, "Come!"

When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered on account of God's message and for adhering to the testimony.

When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;

When he broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.