¹⁸ Children, ^(A)it is the last hour; and just as you heard that ^(B)antichrist is coming, ^(C)even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

³ I saw one of his heads as if it had been ^[a]fatally wounded, and his ^(A)fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth ^(B)was amazed and followed after the beast; ⁴ they worshiped the ^(C)dragon because he ^(D)gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “^(E)Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?”

⁸ All who ^(A)live on the earth will worship him, everyone ^(B)whose name has not been ^[a]written ^(C)since the foundation of the world in the ^(D)book of life of ^(E)the Lamb who has been slaughtered.