Revelation 5:8

The living creatures and elders fall before the Lamb with harps and bowls of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. The Lamb receives the worship due to God, and His people's prayers are treasured in heaven.

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• Ps 141:2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
• Rev 8:3–4Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
• Phil 2:9–11Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
• Rev 4:10the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
• Rev 14:2–3And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
• Rev 5:14And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
• Ps 33:2Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
• Rev 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
• Rev 4:4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
• Rev 7:10–12And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
• Rev 19:4And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying: “Amen, Hallelujah!”
• Rom 14:10–12Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
• John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
• Ps 150:3Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
• Ps 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
• Rev 5:6Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
• Rev 15:7Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
• Rev 15:2And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
• Ps 81:2Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
• Heb 1:6And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

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