If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed. This calls for the patient endurance and faith of the saints.
In context
8All who dwell on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered, from the foundation of the world. 9Let anyone who has an ear listen: 10If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed. This calls for the patient endurance and faith of the saints. 11Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and makes the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.
