Genesis 19:17

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Summary

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

He said

Genesis 18:22

Escape

Hebrews 2:3

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General references

Philippians 3:7

Bible References

He said

Then two of the men turned away from there and walked toward Sodom, while Abraham remained standing in the presence of the LORD.

Escape

Lot then went out and told his sons-in-law (they had married his daughters), "Get out of here! The LORD is going to destroy this city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him so they could kill him in the morning. David's wife, Michal, told him, "If you don't escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you'll be put to death."

Elijah was terrified, so he got up and ran for his life to Beer-sheba, which is part of Judah, and left his servant there

I lift up my eyes toward the mountains from where will my help come?

But when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he told them, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

how will we escape if we neglect a salvation as great as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and then it was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

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But Lot's wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

"The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get his belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back to what's left behind.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

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then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.

The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,

because life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Remember Lot's wife!

But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah.