The Beast out of the Sea

13 The dragon^[a] stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea.^(A) It had ten horns and seven heads,^(B) with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.^(C)

³ One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed.^(A) The whole world was filled with wonder^(B) and followed the beast.

⁴ People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like^(A) the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness^(B) on the part of God’s people.^(C)

The Beast out of the Earth

¹¹ Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth.^(D) It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.^{(E) 12} It exercised all the authority^(F) of the first beast on its behalf,^(G) and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast,^(H) whose fatal wound had been healed.^{(I) 13} And it performed great signs,^(J) even causing fire to come down from heaven^(K) to the earth in full view of the people. ¹⁴ Because of the signs^(L) it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived^(M) the inhabitants of the earth.^(N) It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.^{(O) 15} The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship^(P) the image to be killed.^{(Q) 16} It also forced all people, great and small,^(R) rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,^{(S) 17} so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark,^(T) which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.^(U)

The Ten Commandments^(A)

20 And God spoke^(B) all these words:^(C)

⁸ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’^[a]”^(A)

¹² I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake.^(A) The sun turned black^(B) like sackcloth^(C) made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth,^(D) as figs drop from a fig tree^(E) when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up,^(F) and every mountain and island was removed from its place.^(G)

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,^(H) hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.^{(I) 16} They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us^(J) and hide us^[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne^(K) and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day^(L) of their^[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”^(M)

⁸ The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain,^(A) all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third^(B) of the sea turned into blood,^(C)