Revelation 18:6
Render to her as she also rendered to you, and double to her two-fold according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, mix two-fold for her.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5Because her sins have reached as far as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Cross References
Exodus 21:23But if any harm follows, then thou shall give life for life,
Isaiah 40:2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Jeremiah 16:18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
Jeremiah 50:15Shout against her round about. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks are fallen. Her walls are thrown down. For it is the vengeance of LORD. Take vengeance upon her. As she has done, do to her.
Jeremiah 51:24And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says LORD.
Lamentations 3:64Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 18:2-9
The Fall of Babylon. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,… Read the whole commentary →