'Angels' in the Bible

After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.

The two angels entered Sodom at sunset while Lot was sitting in the gate area of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up, greeted them, bowed low with his face to the ground,

But the angels inside reached out, dragged Lot back into the house with them, shut the door,

"Do you have anyone else here in the city?" the angels asked Lot. "A son-in-law? Sons? Daughters? Get them out of this place,

As dawn was breaking, the angels pressured Lot. "Get going!" they told him. "Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be engulfed by the devastation that's coming to this city."

when he had a dream! He saw a raised highway that had been built with its ending point on earth and its beginning point in heaven. God's angels were ascending and descending on it.

As Jacob went on his way, angels from God met him.

"Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since he charges his angels with error,

Mortal men ate the food of angels; he sent provision to them in abundance.

He inflicted his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, sending destroying angels among them.

for he will command his angels to protect you in all your ways.

Bless the LORD, you angels who belong to him, you mighty warriors who carry out his commands, who are obedient to the sound of his words.

Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his armies!

However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for 21 days. Then all of a sudden, Michael, one of the chief angels, came to assist me! I had been detained there near the kings of Persia.

He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, because it is written, "God will put his angels in charge of you,' and, "With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

So the Devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to him.

The enemy who sowed them is the Devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes others to sin and those who practice lawlessness

That is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, cull out the evil people from among the righteous ones,

The Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone according to what he has done.

"See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, because I tell you, their angels in heaven always have access to my Father in heaven.

because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

He'll send out his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they'll gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another."

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels are with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.

"Then he will say to those on his left, "Get away from me, you who are accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!

Don't you think that I could call on my Father, and he would send me more than twelve legions of angels now?

He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was among wild animals, and angels were ministering to him.

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes with the holy angels in his Father's glory."

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

He'll send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."

"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

because it is written, "God will put his angels in charge of you to watch over you carefully.

If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels.

"But I tell you, the Son of Man will acknowledge before God's angels everyone who acknowledges me before people.

But whoever denies me before people will be denied before God's angels.

In the same way, I tell you that there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."

"One day, the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.

Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children.

and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who were saying that he was alive.

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

She saw two angels in white clothes who were sitting down, one at the head and the other at the foot of the place where Jesus' body had been lying.

You received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet you haven't obeyed it!"

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.

You know that we will rule angels, not to mention things in this life, don't you?

This is why a woman should have authority over her own head: because of the angels.

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind.

and to give us who are afflicted relief when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

By common confession, the secret of our godly worship is great: In flesh was he revealed to sight, kept righteous by the Spirit's might, adored by angels singing. To nations was he manifest, believing souls found peace and rest, our Lord in heaven reigning!

With God as my witness, as well as the Messiah Jesus and the chosen angels, I solemnly call on you to carry out these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality.

and became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is better than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father"? Or again, "I will be his Father, and he will be my Son"?

And again, when he brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him."

Now about the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire."

But to which of the angels did he ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?

because if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,

For he did not put the coming world we are talking about under the control of angels.

You made him a little lower than the angels, yet you crowned him with glory and honor

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

For it is clear that he did not come to help angels. No, he came to help Abraham's descendants,

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together,

Stop neglecting to show hospitality to strangers, for by showing hospitality some have had angels as their guests without being aware of it.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you in regard to the things that have now been announced to you by those who brought you the good news through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things that even the angels desire to look into.

who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into the lowest hell and imprisoned them in chains of deepest darkness, holding them for judgment;

Being bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to slander glorious beings. Yet even angels, although they are greater in strength and power, do not bring a slanderous accusation against them from the Lord.

He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.

The person who conquers in this way will wear white clothes, and I will never erase his name from the Book of Life. I will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father and his angels.

Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels, the living creatures, and the elders surrounding the throne. They numbered 10,000's times 10,000 and thousands times thousands.

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth. They were holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the land, on the sea, or on any tree.

I saw another angel coming from the east having the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been permitted to harm the land and sea,

All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God,

Then I saw the seven angels who stand in God's presence, and seven trumpets were given to them.

The seven angels who had the seven trumpets got ready to blow them.

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying overhead say in a loud voice, "How terrible, how terrible, how terrible for those living on the earth, because of the blasts of the remaining trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!"

It told the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are held at the great Euphrates River."

So the four angels who were ready for that hour, day, month, and year were released to kill one-third of humanity.

Then a war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back.

The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.

will drink the wine of God's wrath, which has been poured undiluted into the cup of his anger. He will be tortured with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the lamb.

I saw another sign in heaven. It was both spectacular and amazing. There were seven angels with the seven last plagues, with which God's wrath is completed.

The seven angels with the seven plagues came out of the Temple wearing clean, shining linen with gold sashes around their chests.

One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven gold bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

The Temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and his power, and no one could enter the Temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels came to an end.

Then I heard a loud voice from the Temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth."

Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and told me, "Come, I will show you how the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters will be judged.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, "Come! I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb."

It had a large, high wall with twelve gates. Twelve angels were at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were written on the gates.