Matthew 11:23

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Summary

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Which art

2 Peter 2:4

In sodom

Revelation 11:8

General references

Bible References

Which art

“But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The glory of Israel,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“You had the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

“Though you build high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

In sodom

Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord.

Then the Lord

rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,

As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an

example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

General references

and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.”

but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;