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Revelation 18:3 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.” "
Revelation 18:3
Verse in Context
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1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hated bird!
3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”
4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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Revelation 18:1
"After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory."
Revelation 18:2
"He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hated bird!"
Revelation 18:4
"I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,"
Revelation 18:5
"for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities."
Revelation 18:6
"Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double."
Revelation 18:7
"However much she glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’"
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