³² But now, please forgive their sin^(A)—but if not, then blot me^(B) out of the book^(C) you have written.”

²⁰ However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”^(A)

⁸ All inhabitants of the earth^(A) will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life,^(B) the Lamb^(C) who was slain from the creation of the world.^[a](D)

⁸ The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss^(A) and go to its destruction.^(B) The inhabitants of the earth^(C) whose names have not been written in the book of life^(D) from the creation of the world will be astonished^(E) when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.