The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to their soul. For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Mystery

For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

The mother

The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

General references

"Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.