Matthew 11:23

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Summary

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Which art

2 Peter 2:4

In sodom

Revelation 11:8

General references

Bible References

Which art

And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;

How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.

Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, who sealest up the measure of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol, with them that go down into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.

for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;

In sodom

And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.

And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters!

as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.

and their body shall be on the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

General references

And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all of them:

They went out of the city and came to him.

If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not;