Revelation 13:9-16

9If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen.

10If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a sword he will be killed. This calls for endurance and faithfulness from the saints.

11Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.

12It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf and compels the earth and those who live on it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.

13It also performs great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in front of people.

14It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

15It was permitted to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

16And it makes everyone — small and great, rich and poor, free and slave — to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,