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32 (A) But I beg you to forgive them. If you don't, please wipe my name out of your book.”[a]

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  1. 32.32 your book: The people of Israel believed that the Lord kept a record of the names of his people, and anyone whose name was removed from that book no longer belonged to the Lord.

32 But now, please forgive their sin(A)—but if not, then blot me(B) out of the book(C) you have written.”

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(A) Everyone who wins the victory will wear white clothes. Their names will not be erased from the book of life,[a] and I will tell my Father and his angels that they are my followers.

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  1. 3.5 book of life: The book in which the names of God's people are written.

The one who is victorious(A) will, like them, be dressed in white.(B) I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life,(C) but will acknowledge that name before my Father(D) and his angels.

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(A) The beast was worshiped by everyone whose name wasn't written before the time of creation in the book of the Lamb who was killed.[a]

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  1. 13.8 wasn't written … was killed: Or “not written in the book of the Lamb who was killed before the time of creation.”

All inhabitants of the earth(A) will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life,(B) the Lamb(C) who was slain from the creation of the world.[a](D)

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  1. Revelation 13:8 Or written from the creation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was slain

(A) The beast you saw is one that used to be and no longer is. It will come back from the deep pit, but only to be destroyed. Everyone on earth whose names were not written in the book of life[a] before the time of creation will be amazed. They will see this beast that used to be and no longer is, but will be once more.

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  1. 17.8 book of life: See the note at 3.5.

The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss(A) and go to its destruction.(B) The inhabitants of the earth(C) whose names have not been written in the book of life(D) from the creation of the world will be astonished(E) when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

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