And they began to beg ¹  him not to order ²  them to depart into the abyss. ³ 

or “Who will descend into the abyss?” ¹  (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

Then ¹  I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding ²  in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

He ¹  opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it ²  like smoke from a giant furnace. The ³  sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.

They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. ¹ 

When ¹  they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer ²  them and kill them.

Then ¹  the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky ²  to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. ³ 

The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss ¹  and then go to destruction. The ²  inhabitants of the earth – all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world – will be astounded when they see that ³  the beast was, and is not, but is to come.

The angel ¹  then ²  threw him into the abyss and locked ³  and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, ¹  in the dark places, in the watery depths.

But you were brought down ¹  to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the pit. ² 

Water engulfed me up to my neck; ¹  the deep ocean ²  surrounded me; seaweed ³  was wrapped around my head.

He made the sky sink ¹  as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

He made the sky sink ¹  as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

Death and Destruction ¹  are before the Lord – how much more ²  the hearts of humans! ³ 

who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land ¹  they did not stumble.

for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

Now ¹  the earth ²  was without shape and empty, ³  and darkness ⁴  was over the surface of the watery deep, ⁵  but the Spirit of God ⁶  was moving ⁷  over the surface ⁸  of the water. ⁹ 

And you, Capernaum, ¹  will you be exalted to heaven? ²  No, you will be thrown down to Hades! ³  For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. ¹  For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, ²  how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!