Revelation 9:21
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
American Standard Version (ASV)
and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.
Webster's Revision
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their lewdness, nor of their thefts.
World English Bible
They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
English Revised Version (ERV)
and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Definitions for Revelation 9:21
Clarke's Revelation 9:21 Bible Commentary
Neither repented they of their murders - Their cruelties towards the genuine followers of God, the Albigenses, and Waldenses, and others, against whom they published crusades, and hunted them down, and butchered them in the most shocking manner. The innumerable murders by the horrible inquisition need not be mentioned.
Their sorceries - Those who apply this also to the Romish Church understand by it the various tricks, sleights of hand, or legerdemain, by which they impose on the common people in causing images of Christ to bleed, and the various pretended miracles wrought at the tombs, etc., of pretended saints, holy wells, and such like.
Fornication - Giving that honor to various creatures which is due only to the Creator.
Their thefts - Their exactions and impositions on men for indulgences, pardons, etc. These things may be intended, but it is going too far to say that this is the true interpretation. And yet to express any doubt on this subject is with some little else than heresy. If such men can see these things so clearly in such obscure prophecies, let them be thankful for their sight, and indulgent to those who still sit in darkness.
Wesley's Revelation 9:21 Bible Commentary
9:21 Neither repented of their murders, nor of their sorceries — Whoever reads the histories of the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, will find numberless instances of all these in every part of the Christian world. But though God cut off so many of these scandals to the Christian name, yet the rest went on in the same course. Some of them, however, might repent under the plagues which follow.