⁷ For ^(A)the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only ^[a](B)He who now restrains will do so until ^[b]He is ^[c]removed.

⁵ and on her forehead a name was written, ^[a]a ^(A)mystery: “^(B)BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF ^(C)THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

² with whom ^(A)the kings of the earth committed acts of sexual immorality, and ^(B)those who live on the earth ^(C)became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”