Matthew 11:24
Greek Text— Matthew 11:24But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”
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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.
Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
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;
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
“ ‘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.
lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,
Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
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.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
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.”
You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you.
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”
As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
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.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.”
For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.
and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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.
In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.