Genesis 19:26

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

Remember Lot’s wife!

Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there. Those who remained fled to the hills.

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

“Therefore now Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining;

I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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;

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the middle of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein.

and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.