Thematic Bible: What and who are examples


Thematic Bible



so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire. Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversBestialityCivilizationHomosexualityEternal JudgementTwo CitiesSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentgayssexSexual ImmoralityBeing Gay

I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that all our fathers were under the Cloud, all passed thro' the sea: and were all baptized into the Mosaical institution by the cloud, and by the sea; they all eat the same spiritual meat, read more.
and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.) but with the greater part God was not well pleased: for their carcasses were strown in the wilderness. now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did. be not idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day. neither let us provoke Christ as some of them provoked him, and were destroyed by serpents. neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel. All these things happened to them for examples: and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. wherefore let him that thinks he stands firm, take heed lest he fall.

As there were false prophets among the people of Israel, there will likewise be false doctors among you, who by introducing pernicious sects, and by renouncing the Lord, who bought them, will bring upon themselves swift destruction. many will follow their destructive maxims, and by their means christianity will be traduc'd. By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring. read more.
for since God did not spare the angels, who had sinned, but having precipitated them to hell, confin'd them to chains of darkness, where they are reserv'd for judgment: since he did not spare the old world, having preserved only eight persons, including Noah, that preacher of virtue, when he brought the deluge upon the impious world: since he condemn'd the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to an entire subversion, and reduc'd them to ashes, to make them serve for examples to future impiety: