Revelation 13:7-9

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⁷The Dragon gave him power to fight against God’s people^[a] and to overcome them, and to rule over all nations and language groups throughout the world. ⁸And all mankind—whose names were not written down before the founding of the world in the slain Lamb’s Book of Life^[b]—worshiped the evil Creature.

⁹Anyone who can hear, listen carefully:

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Footnotes

Revelation 13:7 The Dragon gave him power to fight against God’s people, literally, “It was permitted to fight against God’s people.”
Revelation 13:8 whose names were not written . . . in the slain Lamb’s Book of Life, or “those whose names were not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain before the founding of the world.” That is, regarded as slain in the eternal plan and knowledge of God.