For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
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