Revelation 5:3

5:3 But ¹  no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

Revelation 9:3

9:3 Then ²  out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power ³  like that of the scorpions of the earth.

Revelation 17:2

17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.” ⁴ 

Revelation 21:1

A New Heaven and a New Earth

21:1 Then ⁵  I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, ⁶  and the sea existed no more.

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¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

³ tn See BDAG 352 s.v. ἐξουσία 2, “potential or resource to command, control, or govern, capability, might, power.”

⁴ tn This is the same word translated “sexual immorality” earlier in the verse, but here the qualifier “sexual” has not been repeated for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

⁶ tn For the translation of ἀπέρχομαι (apercomai; here ἀπῆλθαν [aphlqan]) L&N 13.93 has “to go out of existence – ‘to cease to exist, to pass away, to cease.’”