They’ve lost all feeling for what is right, and so they allow themselves to indulge in all kinds of wrong pleasures. They take part in every kind of unclean act, and they’re full of greed.
Woe to them! They’ve followed the way of Cain. Because they love money, they’ve rushed into the same mistake Balaam made. They’ve rebelled just like Korah, and they’re going to be destroyed just as he was.
All the nations have drunk the strong wine of her terrible sins. The kings of the earth took part in the wrong things she did, and the traders of the world grew rich from her great wealth.”
You’ve spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life and wanted the wrong things. You got drunk and went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which is something the Lord hates.
So let me tell you—and I’m speaking for the Lord as I warn you: You must not live the way the Gentiles do any longer. They’re not able to think things through correctly.