¹⁷ And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. ^(A)Do not look back or stop anywhere in the ^(B)valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

¹⁶ then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ^17 (A)Let the one who is on ^(B)the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, ¹⁸ and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: ^(A)forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for ^(B)the prize of the upward ^(C)call of God in Christ Jesus.

⁶² Jesus said to him, ^(A)“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

²⁶ But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became ^(A)a pillar of salt.

²² Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called ^(A)Zoar.^[a]

³¹ On that day, ^(A)let the one who is on ^(B)the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. ^32 (C)Remember Lot's wife.

⁷ But when he saw many of ^(A)the Pharisees and ^(B)Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ^(C)“You brood of ^(D)vipers! Who warned you to flee from ^(E)the wrath to come?

³ Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to ^(A)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.