getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,
Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.
so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.
Render to her as she also rendered to you, and double to her two-fold according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, mix two-fold for her.
having forsaked a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.
Alexander the coppersmith did many evil things to me. May the Lord repay him according to his works,
Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.
Thou are all fair, my love, and there is no spot in thee.
Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.