Make two winged creatures of hammered gold,

Their outstretched wings covered the box and the poles it was carried by.

and how much pure gold in making the altar on which incense was burned and in making the chariot for the winged creatures that spread their wings over the LORD's Covenant Box.

The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place,

I put a terrifying angel there to guard you. You lived on my holy mountain and walked among sparkling gems.

He dreamed that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on his throne, high and exalted, and his robe filled the whole Temple.

They were calling out to each other: "Holy, holy, holy! The LORD Almighty is holy! His glory fills the world."

I said, "There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

The creatures went wherever they wished, and the wheels did exactly what the creatures did, because the creatures controlled them.

The great trumpet will sound, and he will send out his angels to the four corners of the earth, and they will gather his chosen people from one end of the world to the other.

And he said to them, "I am telling you the truth: you will see heaven open and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of Man."

For it seems to me that God has given the very last place to us apostles, like people condemned to die in public as a spectacle for the whole world of angels and of human beings.

On account of the angels, then, a woman should have a covering over her head to show that she is under her husband's authority.

in order that at the present time, by means of the church, the angelic rulers and powers in the heavenly world might learn of his wisdom in all its different forms.

and you have been given full life in union with him. He is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.

What are the angels, then? They are spirits who serve God and are sent by him to help those who are to receive salvation.

God revealed to these prophets that their work was not for their own benefit, but for yours, as they spoke about those things which you have now heard from the messengers who announced the Good News by the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things which even the angels would like to understand.

who has gone to heaven and is at the right side of God, ruling over all angels and heavenly authorities and powers.

Again I looked, and I heard angels, thousands and millions of them! They stood around the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders,

and sang in a loud voice: "The Lamb who was killed is worthy to receive power, wealth, wisdom, and strength, honor, glory, and praise!"