Revelation 18:3

New American Bible - revised edition

For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”

Cross References

Isaiah 47:15

Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; They wander their separate ways, with none to save you.

Jeremiah 51:34

“He consumed me, defeated me, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; he left me like an empty vessel, Swallowed me like a sea monster, filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.

Jeremiah 51:7

who pays out her due. Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord making the whole earth drunk; The nations drank its wine, thus they have gone mad.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies are abandoned in the streets; Those who reclined on crimson now embrace dung heaps.

Nahum 3:4

For the many debaucheries of the prostitute, a charming mistress of witchcraft, Who enslaved nations with her prostitution, and peoples by her witchcraft:

Luke 7:25

Then what did you go out to see? Someone dressed in fine garments? Those who dress luxuriously and live sumptuously are found in royal palaces.

1 Timothy 5:11

But exclude younger widows, for when their sensuality estranges them from Christ, they want to marry

Revelation 14:8

A second angel followed, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that made all the nations drink the wine of her licentious passion.”

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth have had intercourse with her, and the inhabitants of the earth became drunk on the wine of her harlotry.”

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning: “Alas, alas, great city, in which all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth. In one hour she has been ruined.

Revelation 18:23

No light from a lamp will ever be seen in you again. No voices of bride and groom will ever be heard in you again. Because your merchants were the great ones of the world, all nations were led astray by your magic potion.

Revelation 18:7

To the measure of her boasting and wantonness repay her in torment and grief; for she said to herself, ‘I sit enthroned as queen; I am no widow, and I will never know grief.’

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who had intercourse with her in their wantonness will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre.