Revelation 13

The First Beast

1 Then 1 I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a a beast rising up out of the sea, b having 2 seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a c blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The d dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads e as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And f all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, g "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"

5 And he was given h a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to 3 continue for i forty-two months. 6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, j His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was granted to him k to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And l authority was given him over every 4 tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, m whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain n from the foundation of the world. 9 o If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

10 p He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; q he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. r Here is the 5 patience and the faith of the saints.

The Second Beast

11 Then I saw another beast s coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, t whose deadly wound was healed. 13 u He performs great signs, v so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 w And he deceives 6 those who dwell on the earth x by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword y and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak z and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, a to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has 7 the mark or b the name of the beast, c or the number of his name. 18 d Here is wisdom. Let him who has e understanding calculate f the number of the beast, g for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 65:10
    You water its ridges abundantly, You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:6
    I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it.
  3. Cross References
    Romans 3:4
    Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.
  4. Cross References
    1 Thessalonians 1:3
    Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father.
  5. Cross References
    Romans 15:25
    But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.
    Hebrews 10:32 - 34
    But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
  6. Cross References
    Colossians 2:2
    That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.
  7. Cross References
    Hebrews 10:36
    For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 22:16
    And said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son -
    Genesis 22:17
    Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
    Luke 1:73
    The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 22:16
    And said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son -
    Genesis 22:17
    Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 12:4
    So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
    Genesis 21:5
    Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 22:11
    Then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept that, and he shall not make it good.
  12. Cross References
    Romans 8:17
    And if children, then heirs - heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
    Hebrews 11:9
    By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
  13. Cross References
    Romans 11:29
    For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
    1 Samuel 15:29
    "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent."
    Titus 1:2
    In hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
  15. Cross References
    Colossians 1:5
    Because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel.
    Hebrews 3:6
    But Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
    Hebrews 7:19
    For the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
    Hebrews 12:1
    Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 16:2
    And the LORD said to Moses: "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
    Leviticus 16:15
    Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
    Hebrews 9:3
    And behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All.
    Hebrews 9:7
    But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance.
  17. Cross References
    John 14:2
    In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
    Hebrews 4:14
    Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 14:17 - 19
    And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley), after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.
    Psalms 110:4
    The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.
    Hebrews 3:1
    Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus.
    Hebrews 5:10
    Called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek.
    Hebrews 5:11
    Of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 14:18 - 20
    Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.
    Hebrews 7:6
    But he whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
  20. Cross References
    Numbers 18:21 - 26
    Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting.
    2 Chronicles 31:4
    Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to contribute support for the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 14:19
    And he blessed him and said: Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth.
    Genesis 14:20
    And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all.
  22. Cross References
    Romans 4:13
    For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
  23. Cross References
    Hebrews 5:6
    As He also says in another place: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek".
    Hebrews 6:20
    Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
    Revelation 1:18
    I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
  24. Cross References
    Romans 7:7 - 14
    What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet.
    Galatians 2:21
    "I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain."
    Hebrews 7:18
    For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.
    Hebrews 8:7
    For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
  25. Cross References
    Genesis 49:8 - 10
    Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall prai...
    Numbers 24:17
    I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not n...
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he ...
    Micah 5:2
    "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are l...
    Matthew 1:3
    Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez beg...
    Matthew 2:6
    'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are ...
    Revelation 5:5
    But one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep....
  26. Cross References
    Matthew 1:2
    Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.
  27. Cross References
    Psalms 110:4
    The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.
    Hebrews 5:6
    As He also says in another place: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek".
    Hebrews 6:20
    Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
    Hebrews 7:21
    (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: "The LORD has sworn And will not relent, 'You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek' ").
  28. Cross References
    Romans 8:3
    For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh.
    Galatians 3:21
    Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
    Hebrews 7:11
    Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?
  29. Cross References
    Acts 13:39
    And by Him everyone who believes is justified f...
    Romans 3:20
    Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will...
    Romans 7:7
    What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certain...
    Galatians 2:16
    Knowing that a man is not justified by the work...
    Galatians 3:21
    Is the law then against the promises of God? Ce...
    Hebrews 9:9
    It was symbolic for the present time in which b...
    Hebrews 10:1
    For the law, having a shadow of the good things...
  30. Cross References
    Hebrews 6:18
    That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
    Hebrews 6:19
    This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil.
  31. Cross References
    Lamentations 3:57
    You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, "Do not fear!
    Romans 5:2
    Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
    Ephesians 2:18
    For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
    Hebrews 4:16
    Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
    James 4:8
    Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  32. Cross References
    Psalms 110:4
    The LORD has sworn And will not relent, "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.
    Hebrews 5:6
    As He also says in another place: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek".
    Hebrews 7:17
    For He testifies: "You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.
  33. Cross References
    Hebrews 8:6
    But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
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