Revelation 13 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads. ² The Beast I saw resembled a leopard, his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth like a lion's. To him the dragon gave his own power and his own throne and great authority. ³ One of his heads looked as if it had been slain and killed, but the deadly wound was healed, and the whole earth went after him in wonder, ⁴ worshipping the dragon for having given authority to the Beast, and worshipping the Beast with the cry, "Who is like the Beast? Who can fight with him?" ⁵ He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months; ⁶ so he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling (that is, the dwellers in heaven). ⁷ He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation; ⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life. ⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen: — ¹⁰ Whoever is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes: whoever kills with the sword, by the sword must he be killed. This is what shows the patience and the faith of the saints. ¹¹ Then I saw another Beast rising from the land; he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. ¹² He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ He performs amazing miracles, even making fire descend from heaven on earth in the sight of men, ¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword, ¹⁵ and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast, ¹⁶ and he obliges all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves alike, to have a mark put upon their right hand or their forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he bears the mark, that is, the name of the Beast or the cipher of his name. ¹⁸ Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.

³ Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One, ⁴ the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.

⁷ But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,

³ Then another portent was seen in heaven! There was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and seven horns and seven diadems upon his heads;

⁵ He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months; ⁶ so he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling (that is, the dwellers in heaven).

² And I saw what was like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and, standing beside the sea of glass, those who came off conquerors from the Beast and his statue and the cipher of his name; they had harps of God

³ So he bore me away rapt in the Spirit to the desert, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet Beast covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns.

⁵ and on her forehead a name was written by way of symbol, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of all abominations on earth."

⁷ But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the Beast with the seven heads and the ten horns who carries her. ⁸ The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss — yet to perdition he shall go — and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming. ⁹ Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated: ¹⁰ also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet — and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while. ¹¹ As for the Beast which was and is not, he is an eighth head: he belongs to the seven, and to perdition he shall go. ¹² As for the ten horns you have seen, they are ten kings who have no royal power as yet, but receive royal authority for an hour along with the Beast;

¹⁶ As for the ten horns you have seen, they and the Beast will hate the harlot, lay her waste, and strip her naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her with fire,

¹⁷ But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

⁸ Keep cool, keep awake. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion, looking out for someone to devour.

³ Then another portent was seen in heaven! There was a huge red dragon, with seven heads and seven horns and seven diadems upon his heads; ⁴ his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was on the point of being delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born.

⁹ So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

¹³ And when the dragon found himself thrown down to earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child;

¹⁵ Then from his mouth the serpent poured water after the woman like a river, to sweep her away with a flood;

⁴ worshipping the dragon for having given authority to the Beast, and worshipping the Beast with the cry, "Who is like the Beast? Who can fight with him?"

¹⁰ The fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the Beast; his realm was darkened, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish,

¹² As for the ten horns you have seen, they are ten kings who have no royal power as yet, but receive royal authority for an hour along with the Beast;

²⁰ But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,

² he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years,

¹ Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.

¹⁹ Then said the Pharisees to one another, "You see, you can do nothing! Look, the world has gone after him."

¹⁰ and all sorts and conditions of people attached themselves to him, declaring he was that Power of God which is known as 'the Great Power.' ¹¹ They attached themselves to him because he had dazzled them with his skill in magic for a considerable time.

¹³ indeed Simon himself believed, and after his baptism kept close to Philip, utterly astonished to see the signs and striking miracles which were taking place.

⁹ that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood, ¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

¹ Then I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads. ² The Beast I saw resembled a leopard, his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth like a lion's. To him the dragon gave his own power and his own throne and great authority.

¹² He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword,

⁶ Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.

⁸ The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss — yet to perdition he shall go — and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming.

¹⁰ also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet — and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while.

¹³ they are of one mind, and they confer their power and authority upon the Beast.

¹⁷ for God has put it into their hearts to execute his purpose, by having one mind and by conferring their royal power upon the Beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

²⁰ No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons! ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons. ²² What! do we intend to rouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?

⁴ there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

⁴ the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.

²⁰ But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir;

² The Beast I saw resembled a leopard, his feet were like a bear's, and his mouth like a lion's. To him the dragon gave his own power and his own throne and great authority.

¹² He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ He performs amazing miracles, even making fire descend from heaven on earth in the sight of men,

¹⁵ and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast,

¹⁴ They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings — the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him."

¹⁸ as they watched the smoke of her burning, crying, 'What city was like the great City?'

² but omit the court outside the temple, do not measure that, for it has been given over to the Gentiles; and the city will be under their heel for two and forty months. ³ But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth

⁶ and she herself fled to the desert, where a place has been prepared for her by God, in which she is to be nourished for twelve hundred and sixty days.

¹⁴ but the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle for her flight to the desert, to her appointed place, where she is nourished for a Time, two Times, and half a Time, safe from the serpent.

⁷ He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

¹⁴ So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory — glory such as an only son enjoys from his father — seen it to be full of grace and reality.

¹³ Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips.

¹⁹ For it was in him that the divine Fulness willed to settle without limit,

⁹ It is in Christ that the entire Fulness of deity has settled bodily,

² A tent was set up, the outer tent, containing the lampstand, the table, and the loaves of the Presence; this is called the Holy place.

¹¹ But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order), ¹² not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption.

²⁴ For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

²² You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering, ²³ to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

¹ After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

⁴ also round the throne four and twenty thrones, and on these thrones four and twenty Presbyters seated, who were clad in white raiment with golden crowns upon their heads.

¹³ And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth crying, "Blessing and honour and glory and dominion for ever and ever, to him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb!"

⁹ After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

¹² and heard a loud voice from heaven telling them, "Come up here." So up to heaven they went in a cloud, before the eyes of their enemies.

¹² Rejoice for this, O heavens and ye that dwell in them! But woe to earth and sea! The devil has descended to you in fierce anger, knowing that his time is short."

²⁰ O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

¹ After that I heard what was like the shout of a great host in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! salvation and glory and power are our God's! ² True and just are his sentences of doom; he has doomed the great Harlot who destroyed earth with her vice, he has avenged on her the blood of his servants." ³ Again they repeated, "Hallelujah! And the smoke of her goes up for ever and ever!" ⁴ Then the four and twenty Presbyters and the four living Creatures fell down and worshipped God who is seated on the throne, crying, "So be it, hallelujah!" ⁵ And a voice came from the throne, "Extol our God, all ye his servants, ye who reverence him, low and high!" ⁶ Then I heard a cry like the shout of a great host and the sound of many waves and the roar of heavy thunder — "Hallelujah! now the Lord our God almighty reigns!

³ And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying, "Lo, God's dwelling-place is with men, with men will he dwell; they shall be his people, and God will himself be with them:

⁶ and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

¹¹ Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

¹¹ Then I was told, "You must prophesy again of many peoples and nations and languages and kings."

¹⁸ the nations were enraged, but thine anger has come; the time has come for the dead to be judged, the time for rewarding thy servants the prophets, and the saints who reverence thy name, both low and high, the time for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

¹⁷ So, enraged at the woman, the dragon went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁵ He also told me, "The waters you saw, on which the woman is seated, are peoples and hosts, nations and tongues.

³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

²⁰ Only, do not rejoice because the spirits obey you: rejoice because your names are enrolled in heaven."

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

⁴ He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

³ And you, my true comrade, lend a hand to these women, I beg of you; they have fought at my side in the active service of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained. ²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;

⁵ 'The conqueror shall be clad in white raiment; I will never erase his name from the book of Life, but will own him openly before my Father and before his angels.'

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.

²⁰ Lo, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with me.

⁶ Then I noticed a Lamb standing in the midst of the throne and the four living Creatures and the Presbyters; it seemed to have been slain, but it had seven horns and seven eyes (they are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth), ⁷ and it went and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. ⁸ And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints), ⁹ singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

¹² crying aloud, "The slain Lamb deserves to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honour and glory and blessing."

³ One of his heads looked as if it had been slain and killed, but the deadly wound was healed, and the whole earth went after him in wonder, ⁴ worshipping the dragon for having given authority to the Beast, and worshipping the Beast with the cry, "Who is like the Beast? Who can fight with him?"

¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword, ¹⁵ and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast,

²⁷ Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'

¹⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

²⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.

² for as you judge so you will be judged, and the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves.

⁵² Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; all who draw the sword shall die by the sword.

¹ He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart. ² "In a certain town," he said, "there was a judge who had no reverence for God and no respect even for man. ³ And in that town there was a widow who used to go and appeal to him for 'Justice against my opponent!' ⁴ For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man, ⁵ still, as this widow is bothering me, I will see justice done to her — not to have her for ever coming and pestering me.' ⁶ Listen," said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says! ⁷ And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents? ⁸ I tell you, he will quickly see justice done to his elect! And yet, when the Son of man does come, will he find faith on earth?"

¹⁹ Hold out stedfast and you win your souls.

¹¹ May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

¹² so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

³⁶ Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised. ³⁷ For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay.

³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing. ⁴ You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

² Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial, ³ sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.

⁷ Be patient, then, brothers, till the arrival of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop of the land, biding his time patiently till he gets the autumn and the spring rains; ⁸ have patience yourselves, strengthen your hearts, for the arrival of the Lord is at hand.

⁹ I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.

² I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

¹⁹ I know your doings, your love and loyalty and service and patient endurance; I know you are doing more than you did at first.

³ Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.

¹² This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.

⁶ They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!"

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

¹⁸ Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

¹³ 'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen — they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.' ¹⁴ No wonder they do, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no surprise if his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their doom will answer to their deeds.

¹⁷ So, enraged at the woman, the dragon went off to wage war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus.

¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he bears the mark, that is, the name of the Beast or the cipher of his name.

¹³ Then I saw issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false Prophet, three foul spirits like frogs —

¹⁴ and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword, ¹⁵ and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast, ¹⁶ and he obliges all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves alike, to have a mark put upon their right hand or their forehead, ¹⁷ so that no one can buy or sell unless he bears the mark, that is, the name of the Beast or the cipher of his name.

⁹ They were followed by another, a third angel, crying aloud, "Whoever worships the Beast and his statue, and lets his forehead or hand be marked,

¹¹ the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name."

¹⁰ also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet — and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while. ¹¹ As for the Beast which was and is not, he is an eighth head: he belongs to the seven, and to perdition he shall go.

¹ Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

²⁴ for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible.

²² for false Christs and false prophets will rise and perform signs and wonders to mislead the elect if they can.

⁵⁴ So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" ⁵⁵ But he turned and checked them. ⁵⁶ Then they journeyed to another village.

⁹ Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,

⁹ that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

⁸ For these guides of theirs are hostile to the Truth, just as Jannes and Jambres were hostile to Moses; they are depraved in mind and useless for all purposes of faith.

⁵ whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed."

¹⁴ demon-spirits performing miracles, who come out to muster the kings of the whole world for battle on the great Day of almighty God.

⁹ and they swarmed over the broad earth, encircling the leaguer of the saints and the beloved City; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them,

⁸ and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

¹¹ Then I saw another Beast rising from the land; he had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. ¹² He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

² So the first went off and poured his bowl upon the land; and noisome, painful ulcers broke out on those who bore the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue.

²³ For the magnates of earth were thy traders; all nations were seduced by thy magic spells.

³ flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed — after which he has to be released for a little while. ⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

¹⁰ and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

²⁶ For as the body without the breath of life is dead, so faith is dead without deeds.

⁵ Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, of all who were slain upon earth."

⁴ And I saw thrones with people sitting on them, who were allowed to judge — saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and God's word, those who would not worship the Beast or his statue, and who would not receive his mark on their forehead or hand; they came to life and reigned along with the Christ for a thousand years.

²² To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place.

¹³ For by one Spirit we have all been baptized into one Body, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen; we have all been imbued with one Spirit.

²⁸ There is no room for Jew or Greek, there is no room for slave or freeman, there is no room for male and female; you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁷ Let no one interfere with me after this, for I bear branded on my body the owner's stamp of Jesus.

⁸ Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

¹¹ In it there is no room for Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free man; Christ is everything and everywhere.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the magnates, the generals, the rich, the strong, slaves and freemen everyone of them, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

³ "Do no harm to earth or sea or trees, until we seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads."

⁹ They were followed by another, a third angel, crying aloud, "Whoever worships the Beast and his statue, and lets his forehead or hand be marked, ¹⁰ he shall drink the wine of God's passion, poured out untempered in the cup of his anger, and shall be tortured with fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb: ¹¹ the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name."

⁵ And a voice came from the throne, "Extol our God, all ye his servants, ye who reverence him, low and high!"

¹⁸ to devour the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of the strong, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all men, free and slaves, low and high alike."

¹² And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened — also another book, the book of Life, was opened — and the dead were judged by what was written in these books, by what they had done.

¹² 'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

¹⁶ and he obliges all men, low and high, rich and poor, freemen and slaves alike, to have a mark put upon their right hand or their forehead,

¹⁸ Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.

⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

¹⁴ But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

⁵ But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

³ Blessed is he who reads aloud, blessed they who hear the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time is near.

⁹ Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated:

¹⁷ he made the measure of the wall seventy-two yards, by human, that is, by angelic reckoning.