¹⁶ He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, ^(A)to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and that no one may buy or sell except one who has ^[a]the mark or ^(B)the name of the beast, ^(C)or the number of his name.

^18 (D)Here is wisdom. Let him who has ^(E)understanding calculate ^(F)the number of the beast, ^(G)for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

The Lamb and the 144,000

14 Then I looked, and behold, ^[b]a ^(H)Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him ^(I)one hundred and forty-four thousand, ^[c]having His Father’s name ^(J)written on their foreheads.

Not Legalism but Christ

¹¹ In Him you were also ^(A)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^(B)putting off the body ^[a]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ^12 (C)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through ^(D)faith in the working of God, ^(E)who raised Him from the dead.