⁸ All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book^[a] of life^(A) of the Lamb who was slaughtered.^[b](B)

⁸ The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss^(A) and go to destruction.^(B) Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world^(C) will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.^(D)

¹² I also saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.^(A) Another book was opened, which is the book of life,^(B) and the dead were judged according to their works^(C) by what was written in the books.

¹⁵ And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

²⁷ Nothing unclean will ever enter it,^(A) nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.^(B)