'Angels' in the Bible

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city's gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor!

For he will order his angels to protect you in all you do.

The Lord reigns! The nations tremble. He sits enthroned above the winged angels; the earth shakes.

Praise the Lord, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!

Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his heavenly assembly!

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you' and 'with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to his needs.

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

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers.

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

"See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

"But as for that day and hour no one knows it -- not even the angels in heaven -- except the Father alone.

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

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

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

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

Then he will send angels and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

"But as for that day or hour no one knows it -- neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son -- except the Father.

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us."

for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,'

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

"I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God's angels.

But the one who denies me before men will be denied before God's angels.

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

"Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

He continued, "I tell all of you the solemn truth -- you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

And she saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus' body had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet.

You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it."

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

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!

For this reason a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.

Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son! Today I have fathered you"? And in another place he says, "I will be his father and he will be my son."

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him!"

And he says of the angels, "He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,"

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

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.

For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham's descendants.

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven -- things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,

yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

The one who conquers will be dressed like them in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, but will declare his name before my Father and before his angels.

Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels in a circle around the throne, as well as the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand -- thousands times thousands --

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

Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

And all the angels stood there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground before the throne and worshiped God,

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying directly overhead, proclaiming with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth because of the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow them!"

saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity.

Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels.

So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

that person will also drink of the wine of God's anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.

Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues (they are final because in them God's anger is completed).

and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, dressed in clean bright linen, wearing wide golden belts around their chests.

Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,

and the temple was filled with smoke from God's glory and from his power. Thus no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed.

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple declaring to the seven angels: "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls containing God's wrath."

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the condemnation and punishment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!"

It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.