Revelation 13:2

Good News Translation

The beast looked like a leopard, with feet like a bear's feet and a mouth like a lion's mouth. The dragon gave the beast his own power, his throne, and his vast authority.

Cross References

2 Kings 2:24

Elisha turned around, glared at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces.

Psalm 22:21

Rescue me from these lions; I am helpless before these wild bulls.

Proverbs 17:12

It is better to meet a mother bear robbed of her cubs than to meet some fool busy with a stupid project.

Proverbs 28:15

Poor people are helpless against a wicked ruler; he is as dangerous as a growling lion or a prowling bear.

Isaiah 5:29

The soldiers roar like lions that have killed an animal and are carrying it off where no one can take it away from them.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people change the color of their skin, or a leopard remove its spots? If they could, then you that do nothing but evil could learn to do what is right.

Jeremiah 5:6

That is why lions from the forest will kill them; wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.

Hosea 11:10

“My people will follow me when I roar like a lion at their enemies. They will hurry to me from the west.

Amos 3:12

The Lord says, “As a shepherd recovers only two legs or an ear of a sheep that a lion has eaten, so only a few will survive of Samaria's people, who now recline on luxurious couches.

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall—only to be bitten by a snake!

Habakkuk 1:8

“Their horses are faster than leopards, fiercer than hungry wolves. Their cavalry troops come riding from distant lands; their horses paw the ground. They come swooping down like eagles attacking their prey.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength, so that I was able to proclaim the full message for all the Gentiles to hear; and I was rescued from being sentenced to death.

1 Peter 5:8

Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

Revelation 12:13

When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he began to pursue the woman who had given birth to the boy.

Revelation 12:15

And then from his mouth the dragon poured out a flood of water after the woman, so that it would carry her away.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon was thrown out—that ancient serpent, named the Devil, or Satan, that deceived the whole world. He was thrown down to earth, and all his angels with him.

Revelation 13:12

It used the vast authority of the first beast in its presence. It forced the earth and all who live on it to worship the first beast, whose wound had healed.

Revelation 13:4

Everyone worshiped the dragon because he had given his authority to the beast. They worshiped the beast also, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who can fight against it?”

Revelation 16:10

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. Darkness fell over the beast's kingdom, and people bit their tongues because of their pain,

Revelation 17:12

“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet begun to rule, but who will be given authority to rule as kings for one hour with the beast.

Revelation 19:20

The beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had performed miracles in his presence. (It was by those miracles that he had deceived those who had the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped the image of the beast.) The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live, there where Satan has his throne. You are true to me, and you did not abandon your faith in me even during the time when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed there where Satan lives.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent—that is, the Devil, or Satan—and chained him up for a thousand years.