¹⁹ Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.

¹⁰ They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.

¹⁴ Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.