And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Parallel translations
- WEB They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
- KJV Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of 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.
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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).
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Cross-references · 22
- Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
- 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
- Rev 17:5And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
- Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Rev 17:2with 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.”
- Rev 18:3For 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.”
- Isa 47:9But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
- Rev 18:23–24The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
- Rev 14:8Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
- Isa 57:3“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
- Rev 16:6For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
- Isa 47:12“Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; as if you might profit; as if you might prevail.
- Gal 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
- Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Rev 11:7–9When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
- Rev 13:15It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
- Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
- Rev 19:2for 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.”
- Dan 7:21–25I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
- Dan 11:33Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
- Rev 13:7It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
- Rev 13:13He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.
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