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10 If you are to be ·a prisoner [L taken into captivity],
    then you will ·be a prisoner [L go into captivity].
If you are to be killed with the sword,
    then you will be killed with the sword [Jer. 15:2; 43:11].

This means that ·God’s holy people [T the saints] must have ·patience [perseverance; endurance] and faith.

11 Then I saw another beast ·coming up [rising] out of the earth [Dan. 7:17]. It [or He] had two horns like a ·lamb [or ram; Dan. 8:3], but it spoke like a dragon [C acting like a prophetic spokesperson for the dragon (see 16:13); along with the dragon and the first beast, this second beast forms an evil trinity]. 12 This beast ·stands before the first beast and uses the same power the first beast has [or uses all the authority of the first beast on its behalf]. By this ·power [authority] it makes ·everyone living on earth [L the earth and its inhabitants] worship the first beast, who had the ·death wound [fatal/mortal wound; L wound of its death] that was healed.

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10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,
    into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed[a] with the sword,
    with the sword they will be killed.”[b](A)

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)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 13:10 Some manuscripts anyone kills
  2. Revelation 13:10 Jer. 15:2