'Angels' in the Bible

and said, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down; for it is written, "'To His angels He will give orders concerning thee, and on their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any moment thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"

Thereupon the Devil left Him, and angels at once came and ministered to Him.

The enemy who sows the darnel is *the Devil*; the harvest is the Close of the Age; the reapers are the angels.

The Son of Man will commission His angels, and they will gather out of His Kingdom all causes of sin and all who violate His laws;

So will it be at the Close of the Age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

For the Son of Man is soon to come in the glory of the Father with His angels, and then will He requite every man according to his actions.

"Beware of ever despising one of these little ones, for I tell you that in Heaven their angels have continual access to my Father who is in Heaven.

For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.

And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet-blast, and they will bring together His own People to Him from north, south, east and west--from one extremity of the world to the other.

"But as to that day and the exact time no one knows--not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

"Then will He say to those at His left, "'Begone from me, with the curse resting upon you, into the Fire of the Ages, which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels.

Or do you suppose I cannot entreat my Father and He would instantly send to my help more than twelve legions of angels?

where He remained for forty days, tempted by Satan; and He was among the wild beasts, but the angels waited upon Him.

Every one, however, who has been ashamed of me and of my teachings in this faithless and sinful age, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

Then He will send forth the angels and gather together His chosen People from north, south, east and west, from the remotest parts of the earth and the sky.

"But as to that day or the exact time no one knows--not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

Then, as soon as the angels had left them and returned to Heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go over as far as Bethlehem and see this that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."

He will give orders to His angels concerning thee, to guard thee safely;'

For whoever shall have been ashamed of me and my teachings, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own and the Father's glory and in that of the holy angels.

"And I tell you that every man who shall have acknowledged me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.

But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

"I tell you that in the same way there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one repentant sinner."

"But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.

For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.

and, finding that His body was not there, they came and declared to us that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

"I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you shall see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up, and coming down to the Son of Man."

and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.

you who received the Law given through angels, and yet have not obeyed it."

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither the lower ranks of evil angels nor the higher, neither things present nor things future, nor the forces of nature,

God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

Do you not know that we are to sit in judgement upon angels--to say nothing of things belonging to this life?

That is why a woman ought to have on her head a symbol of subjection, because of the angels.

If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal.

Why then was the Law given? It was imposed later on for the sake of defining sin, until the seed should come to whom God had made the promise; and its details were laid down by a mediator with the help of angels.

Let no one defraud you of your prize, priding himself on his humility and on his worship of the angels, and taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and idly puffed up with his unspiritual thoughts.

and to requite with rest you who are suffering affliction now--rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, attended by His mighty angels.

And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our religion-- that Christ appeared in human form, and His claims justified by the Spirit, was seen by angels and proclaimed among Gentile nations, was believed on in the world, and received up again into glory.

I solemnly call upon you, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, to carry out these instructions of mine without prejudice, and to do nothing from partiality.

having become as far superior to the angels as the Name He possesses by inheritance is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "My Son art Thou: I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?

But speaking of the time when He once more brings His Firstborn into the world, He says, "And let all God's angels worship Him."

Moreover of the angels He says, "He changes His angels into winds, and His ministering servants into a flame of fire."

To which of the angels has He ever said, "Sit at My right hand till I make Thy foes a footstool for Thy feet"?

Are not all angels spirits that serve Him--whom He sends out to render service for the benefit of those who, before long, will inherit salvation?

For if the message delivered through angels proved to be true, and every transgression and act of disobedience met with just retribution,

It is not to angels that God has assigned the sovereignty of that coming world, of which we speak.

Thou hast made him only a little inferior to the angels; with glory and honour Thou hast crowned him, and hast set him to govern the works of Thy hands.

But Jesus--who was made a little inferior to the angels in order that through God's grace He might taste death for every human being--we already see wearing a crown of glory and honour because of His having suffered death.

For assuredly it is not to angels that He is continually reaching a helping hand, but it is to the descendants of Abraham.

On the contrary you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the ever-living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to countless hosts of angels,

Do not neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.

To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.

who is at God's right hand, having gone into Heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement.

while angels, though greater than they in might and power, do not bring any insulting accusation against such in the presence of the Lord.

And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day.

"'In this way he who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments; and I will certainly not blot out his name from the Book of Life, but will acknowledge him in the presence of My Father and His angels.

And I looked, and heard what seemed to be the voices of countless angels on every side of the throne, and of the living creatures and the Elders. Their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, and holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind should blow over the earth or the sea or upon any tree.

And I saw another angel coming from the east and carrying a seal belonging to the ever-living God. He called in a loud voice to the four angels whose work it was to injure the earth and the sea.

All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God.

Then I saw the seven angels who are in the presence of God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made preparations for blowing them.

Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle crying in a loud voice, as it flew across the sky, "Alas, alas, alas, for the inhabitants of the earth, because of the significance of the remaining trumpets which the three angels are about to blow!"

It said to the sixth angel--the angel who had the trumpet, "Set at liberty the four angels who are prisoners near the great river Euphrates."

And the four angels who had been kept in readiness for that hour, day, month, and year, were set at liberty, so that they might kill a third part of mankind.

And war broke out in Heaven, Michael and his angels engaging in battle with the Dragon.

The Dragon fought and so did his angels; but they were defeated, and there was no longer any room found for them in Heaven.

The great Dragon, the ancient serpent, he who is called 'the Devil' and 'the Adversary' and leads the whole earth astray, was hurled down: he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

he shall drink the wine of God's anger which stands ready, undiluted, in the cup of His fury, and he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

Then I saw another marvel in Heaven, great and wonderful--there were seven angels bringing seven plagues. These are the last plagues, because in them God's anger has found full expression.

and there came out of the sanctuary the seven angels who were bringing the seven plagues. The angels were clad in pure, bright linen, and had girdles of gold across their breasts.

And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven bowls of gold, full of the anger of God who lives until the Ages of the Ages.

And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the sanctuary till the seven plagues brought by the seven angels were at an end.

Then I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary say to the seven angels, "Go and pour on to the earth the seven bowls of the anger of God."

Then one of the seven angels who were carrying the seven bowls came and spoke to me. "Come with me," he said, "and I will show you the doom of the great Harlot who sits upon many waters.

Then there came one of the seven angels who were carrying the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues. "Come with me," he said, "and I will show you the Bride, the Lamb's wife."

It has a wall, massive and high, with twelve large gates, and in charge of the gates were twelve angels. And overhead, above the gates, names were inscribed which are those of the twelve tribes of the descendants of Israel.