Revelation 14:12

14:12 This requires ¹  the steadfast endurance ²  of the saints – those who obey ³  God’s commandments and hold to ⁴  their faith in Jesus. ⁵ 

Revelation 12:17

12:17 So ⁶  the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, ⁷  those who keep ⁸  God’s commandments and hold to ⁹  the testimony about Jesus. ¹⁰  (12:18) And the dragon ¹¹  stood ¹²  on the sand ¹³  of the seashore. ¹⁴ 

[14:12]  ¹ tn Grk “Here is.”

[14:12]  ² tn Or “the perseverance.”

[14:12]  ³ tn Grk “who keep.”

[14:12]  ⁴ tn The words “hold to” are implied as a repetition of the participle translated “keep” (οἱ τηροῦντες, Joi throunte").

[14:12]  ⁵ tn Grk “faith of Jesus.” The construction may mean either “faith in Jesus” or “faithful to Jesus.” Either translation implies that ᾿Ιησοῦ (Ihsou) is to be taken as an objective genitive; the difference is more lexical than grammatical because πίστις (pistis) can mean either “faith” or “faithfulness.”

[12:17]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the woman’s escape.

[12:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “her seed” (an idiom for offspring, children, or descendants).

[12:17]  ⁸ tn Or “who obey.”

[12:17]  ⁹ tn Grk “and having.”

[12:17]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the testimony of Jesus,” which may involve a subjective genitive (“Jesus’ testimony”) or, more likely, an objective genitive (“testimony about Jesus”).

[12:17]  ¹¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the dragon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:17]  ¹² tc Grk ἐστάθη (estaqh, “he stood”). The reading followed by the translation is attested by the better mss (Ì⁴⁷ א A C 1854 2344 2351 pc lat sy^h) while the majority of mss (051 Ï vg^mss sy^ph co) have the reading ἐστάθην (estaqhn, “I stood”). Thus, the majority of mss make the narrator, rather than the dragon of 12:17, the subject of the verb. The first person reading is most likely an assimilation to the following verb in 13:1, “I saw.” The reading “I stood” was introduced either by accident or to produce a smoother flow, giving the narrator a vantage point on the sea’s edge from which to observe the beast rising out of the sea in 13:1. But almost everywhere else in the book, the phrase καὶ εἶδον (kai eidon, “and I saw”) marks a transition to a new vision, without reference to the narrator’s activity. On both external and internal grounds, it is best to adopt the third person reading, “he stood.”

[12:17]  ¹³ tn Or “sandy beach” (L&N 1.64).

[12:17]  ¹⁴ sn The standard critical texts of the Greek NT, NA²⁷ and UBS⁴, both include this sentence as 12:18, as do the RSV and NRSV. Other modern translations like the NASB and NIV include the sentence at the beginning of 13:1; in these versions chap. 12 has only 17 verses.