and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, overthrew them, damned them, and made of them an example unto all that after should live ungodly;

Let us study therefore to enter into that rest; lest any man fall, after the same example, into unbelief:

These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted. Neither be ye worshippers of images as were some of them according as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play." Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed - in one day, twenty three thousand.read more.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet: ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

For after this manner in the old time did the holy women which trusted in God tire themselves, and were obedient to their husbands,

Take, my brethren, the prophets: for an example of suffering adversity, and of long patience, which spake in the name of the Lord.

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But and if when ye do well, ye suffer wrong and take it patiently, then is there thanks with God. For hereunto verily were ye called, for Christ also suffered for us: leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps, which did no sin, neither was there guile found in his mouth:

Brethren, be followers of me, and look on them which walk even so, as ye have us for an example.

These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.