Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Parallel translations
- WEB They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
- BSB Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
- NKJV And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
- NASB and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their witchcraft, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
- NLT And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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Quick answer
Nor do they repent of their murders, sorceries, immorality, and thefts. The hardness of the unrepentant extends to moral as well as religious sin.
Overview
The list of sins recalls the second table of the law and exposes a society in open rebellion against God's commands. "Sorceries" (Greek pharmakeia) links occult practice with idolatry. Despite catastrophic warning, there is no turning from sin, confirming the deep grip of human depravity. The verse heightens the wonder of the gospel, which alone breaks sin's power and grants repentance unto life (Acts 5:31).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
- 2 Cor 12:21And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
- Rev 17:5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
- Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- Rev 17:2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
- Rev 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
- Isa 47:9But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
- Rev 18:23–24And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
- Rev 14:8And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
- Isa 57:3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
- Rev 16:6For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
- Isa 47:12Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
- Gal 5:20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
- Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Rev 11:7–9And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
- Rev 13:15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
- Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- Rev 19:2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
- Dan 7:21–25I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
- Dan 11:33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
- Rev 13:7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
- Rev 13:13And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
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