²⁷ For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked, For they don't seek your statutes.

³⁹ and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

¹⁵ Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

⁴ You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

¹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

² with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

³ He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

⁴ The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

⁵ And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

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

⁷ You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

⁸ 'These people draw near to me with their mouth, And honor me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

² You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

¹³ The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];

³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their works, And prostituted themselves in their deeds.

¹⁴ They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'