⁵ And on her forehead was written a name of ^(A)mystery: ^(B)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”

⁸ Another angel, a second, followed, saying, ^(A)“Fallen, fallen is ^(B)Babylon the great, ^(C)she who made all nations drink ^(D)the wine of the passion^[a] of her sexual immorality.”

² And he called out with a mighty voice,

⁷ But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you ^(A)the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.

^19 (A)The great city ^(B)was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God ^(C)remembered ^(D)Babylon the great, ^(E)to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

Godlessness in the Last Days

3 But understand this, that ^(A)in the last days there will come times of difficulty. ² For people will be ^(B)lovers of self, ^(C)lovers of money, ^(D)proud, ^(E)arrogant, abusive, ^(F)disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ^3 (G)heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, ^(H)not loving good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, ^(I)swollen with conceit, ^(J)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵ having the appearance of godliness, but ^(K)denying its power. ^(L)Avoid such people.

⁷ For ^(A)the mystery of lawlessness ^(B)is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.