Revelation 13:18

Here 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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

In Context

17And so that not any man can buy or sell unless having the mark--the name of the beast or the number of its name.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:43He who is wise will give heed to these things, and they will consider the loving kindnesses of LORD.

Hosea 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

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 21:17And he measured the wall of it, a hundred and forty-four forearms, a measure of a man, that is, of a heavenly agent.

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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