“I have cut off nations;
Their corner towers are in ruins.
I have made their streets desolate,
With no one passing by;
Their cities are laid waste,
Without a man, without an inhabitant.

Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an

example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Examples

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a

type of Him who was to come.

For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Lust

The rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

But craved intensely in the wilderness,
And

tempted God in the desert.

General references

Did not Achan the son of Zerah act unfaithfully in the things under the ban, and wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.’”

“I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.

Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,