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

You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;

How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

"Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.

Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

In sodom

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.

As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

General references

And they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them."

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

They went out of the town and were coming to him.

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