Revelation 18:3
18:3 For all the nations have fallen from
the wine of her immoral passion,
and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
Revelation 18:11
18:11 Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer –
Hosea 12:7-8
The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence
12:7 The businessmen love to cheat;
they use dishonest scales.
12:8 Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich!
I have become wealthy!
In all that I have done to gain my wealth,
no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful.”
Zechariah 11:5
11:5 Those who buy them
slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the
Lord, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
Mark 11:17
11:17 Then he began to teach
them and said, “Is it not written: ‘
My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’?
But you have turned it into
a den of robbers!”
Acts 16:19
16:19 But when her owners
saw their hope of profit
was gone, they seized
Paul and Silas and dragged
them into the marketplace before the authorities.
Acts 19:24-27
19:24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines
of Artemis,
brought a great deal
of business
to the craftsmen.
19:25 He gathered
these
together, along with the workmen in similar trades,
and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity
comes from this business.
19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded
and turned away
a large crowd,
not only in Ephesus
but in practically all of the province of Asia,
by saying
that gods made by hands are not gods at all.
19:27 There is danger not only that this business of ours will come into disrepute,
but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis
will be regarded as nothing,
and she whom all the province of Asia
and the world worship will suffer the loss of her greatness.”