Thematic Bible: Are for examples to others
Thematic Bible
Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are for examples to others
God shall be exalted; their blows were the arrow of the simple. And they will cause their tongue to falter upon themselves: all looking upon them shall be moved. And all men shall fear, and they shall announce the work of God: and they shall look at his doing.
I cut off the nations: their pinnacles were desolate: I laid waste their streets from none passing by; their cities were destroyed from not a man, from not an inhabitant I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; and her dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I reviewed over her but they rose early, they corrupted all their doings.
But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert. And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired. Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. read more.
Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.
And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;