Revelation 13:17

And so that not any man can buy or sell unless having the mark--the name of the beast or the number of its name.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

In Context

16And it makes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the freemen and the bondmen, that they would give them marks on their right hand, or on their foreheads.

18Here is wisdom: He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number of a man. And its number is 666

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Cross References

Revelation 13:16And it makes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the freemen and the bondmen, that they would give them marks on their right hand, or on their foreheads.

Revelation 14:9And another agent, a third, followed them, saying in a great voice, If any man worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,

Revelation 15:2And I saw like a glassy sea mingled with fire, and those who were victorious over the beast and over its image and over the number of its name, standing on the glassy sea, having harps of God.

Revelation 22:4And they will see his face, and his name is on their foreheads.

Matthew Henry on Revelation 13:12-18

The Second Beast. ( a. d. 95.) 11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which… Read the whole commentary →

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