15 Bible Verses about Opening Documents

And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming with a great voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose its seals!"

and one of the elders says to me, "Weep not; behold, the Lion Who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, prevailed to open the book, and its seven seals.

And there was given to Him a book of the prophet Isaiah; and, opening the book, He found the place where it had been written,

And no one in Heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look upon it. And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look upon it;

And they sing a new song, saying, "Worthy art Thou to take the book, and to open its seals; because Thou wast slain, and didst redeem to God, by Thy blood, some of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And he had in his hand a little book opened; and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land;

And the voice which I heard from Heaven, I heard again, talking with me, and saying, "Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel, who is standing upon the sea and upon the land."

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of the things that were written in the books, according to their works.

And I saw, when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come."

And, when He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come."

And, when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I saw, and, behold, a black horse, and he who sat on him had a balance in his hand.

And, when He opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come."

And, when He opened the fifth seal, I saw, underneath the altar, the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they were holding.

And I saw, when He opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place; and the sun became black as sack-cloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;

And, when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven about half an hour.