Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

General references

Bible References

Which art

Luke 14:11
For every one that exalteth himself will be humbled; and he that humbleth himself will be exalted.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

In sodom

Jude 1:7
even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of everlasting fire.
Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord also was crucified.

General references

Luke 17:29
but on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
John 4:30
They went out of the city, and came to him.
John 10:37
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.