he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

Remember Lot's wife!

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

Then they cast lots for them, and the one chosen was Matthias; so he was counted with the eleven apostles.

So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,