Revelation 17:4

4 The woman 1was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned 2with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand 3a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 17:4 In-Context

2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk."
3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.
4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."
6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.When I saw her, I marveled greatly.

Cross References 3

  • 1. Revelation 18:16
  • 2. Daniel 11:38
  • 3. Jeremiah 51:7; [Revelation 18:6]
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