Isaiah 57:3 Cross References - BBE

³ But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

¹⁵ And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

²¹ The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

²⁰ Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

² The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.

⁹ Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up. ¹⁰ Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong. ¹¹ Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

⁷ But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

³⁴ You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

⁴ An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

⁷ So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

⁴⁰ But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that. ⁴¹ You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God. ⁴² Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching. ⁴⁴ You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

⁴ O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

¹⁰ In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

¹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters; ² With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires. ³ And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns, ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires; ⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.