²⁷ For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

³⁹ So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

¹⁵ So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

¹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters;

² With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

³ And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.

¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

⁷ You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

⁸ These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

³⁹ So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?