because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

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.”

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.”

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said, “Child, get up.”

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters who are in Laodicea and to Nympha and the church that meets in her house.

They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,