Lots Wife

remember the wife of Lot.

And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is--a pillar of salt!

And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, `Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.'

And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself--face to the earth,

Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;

and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

And Lot goeth up out of Zoar, and dwelleth in the mountain, and his two daughters with him, for he hath been afraid of dwelling in Zoar, and he dwelleth in a cave, he and his two daughters.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as <FI>is<Fi> good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'

in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; — read the full passage →

and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where <FI>are<Fi> the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.'

for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great <FI>before<Fi> the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city.

And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.'

And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents; — read the full passage →

haste, escape thither, for I am not able to do anything till thine entering thither;' therefore hath he calleth the name of the city Zoar.

and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set <FI>them<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward; — read the full passage →

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me, — read the full passage →

and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as <FI>one<Fi> mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;

And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south; — read the full passage →

for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; — read the full passage →

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens; — read the full passage →

And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

come, we cause our father to drink wine, and lie with him, and preserve from our father--a seed.'

The sun hath gone out on the earth, and Lot hath entered into Zoar,

and he saith, `Lo, I pray you, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, unto the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet--then ye have risen early and gone on your way;' and they say, `Nay, but in the broad place we do lodge.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

he on the house-top--let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

And the first-born saith unto the younger, `Our father <FI>is<Fi> old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as <FI>is<Fi> the way of all the earth;

And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.' — read the full passage →

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away; — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

and he upon the house-top, let him not come down to the house, nor come in to take anything out of his house;

And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as <FI>in<Fi> hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it <FI>is<Fi> all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

lo, I pray thee, this city <FI>is<Fi> near to flee thither, and it <FI>is<Fi> little; let me escape, I pray thee, thither, (is it not little?) and my soul doth live.'

and the men who <FI>are<Fi> at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

remember the wife of Lot. — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than <FI>to<Fi> them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

and the men of Sodom <FI>are<Fi> evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

Before they lie down, the men of the city--men of Sodom--have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.

I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'

and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,

and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

And Abraham journeyeth from thence toward the land of the south, and dwelleth between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourneth in Gerar; — read the full passage →

(<FI> with<Fi> brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --

And when the dawn hath ascended, then the messengers press upon Lot, saying, `Rise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are found present, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.' — read the full passage →

Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

then those in Judea--let them flee to the mounts;

And Lot saith unto them, `Not <FI>so<Fi> , I pray thee, my lord;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it <FI>is<Fi> great on man: — read the full passage →

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

and thou hast come near over-against the sons of Ammon, thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give <FI>any<Fi> of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee <FI>for<Fi> a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given it <FI>for<Fi> a possession.

and Jehovah saith unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them <FI>in<Fi> battle, for I do not give to thee of their land <FI>for<Fi> a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given Ar <FI>for<Fi> a possession.'

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

`And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; — read the full passage →

`Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)

And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?