7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: …
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-7)We have here, I. The design of the apostle in writing this epistle to the lately converted Jews and Gentiles; namely, to establish them in the Christian faith, and a practice and conversation truly consonant and conformable thereunto, and in an open and bold profession thereof, especially in times of notorious opposition, whether by artful seduction or violent and inhuman persecution. But then we…
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