15Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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;
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. …
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)We have here the instructions that Christ gave to his disciples, when he gave them their commission. Whether this charge was given them in a continued discourse, or the several articles of it hinted to them at several times, is not material; in this he commanded them . Jacob’s blessing his sons, is called his commanding them, and with these commands Christ commanded a blessing. Observe, I. The peo…
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