Genesis 13:13

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

“ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

“ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight; and he killed him.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. So Yahweh killed him.

The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.

and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.