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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Revelation 20 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Revelation 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/19.htm" title="Revelation 19">◄</a> Revelation 20 <a href="../revelation/21.htm" title="Revelation 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/revelation/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Thousand Years</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or God; I also saw those who">a</a></sup></span> had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Judgment of Satan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Judgment of the Dead</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>God; I also saw those who</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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