Or as it was in Lot's time; they went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building,

Remember Lot's wife!

and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.

Then they drew lots between them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added to the eleven apostles.

"Brothers, the prediction of the Scriptures had to come true that the holy Spirit uttered by the lips of David, about Judas, who acted as guide for the men that arrested Jesus??17 for he was one of our number and a share in this ministry of ours fell to his lot."

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

sometimes being actually exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violence, and sometimes showing yourselves ready to share the lot of those in that condition.

and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men??8 for as long as that upright man lived among them, day after day his upright soul was tormented by what he saw and heard of their lawless actions??9 then the Lord knows how to rescue God-fearing people from trial and to punish wrongdoers while they are being kept for the Day of Judgment,

it fell to his lot, according to the priests' practice, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn the incense,

but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.