they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.’

They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.