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

Thou who said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven; upon high next to the stars of God I will exalt my throne: and I will sit upon the mount of the testimony and in the sides of the north;

Aleph How has the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his anger! He has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!

Son of man, raise up lamentations upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou dost seal up the sum of perfection, full of wisdom, and completed in beauty.

I made the Gentiles to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those that descend into the pit: and all the choice trees of Eden, and the best of Lebanon, all that drink waters, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars, from there I will bring thee down, said the LORD.

For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

In sodom

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of the heavens;

As I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister has never done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, were set forth for an example, having received the judgment of eternal fire.

And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

General references

and they called unto Lot and said unto him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us that we may know them.

but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

Then they went out of the city and came unto him.

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