(A)If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us (B)a few survivors,
we should have been like (C)Sodom,
    and become like (D)Gomorrah.

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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29 And as Isaiah predicted,

(A)(B)“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
    (C)we would have been like Sodom
    and become like Gomorrah.”

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29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(A)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[a](B)

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  1. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9

31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah (A)shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 (B)For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. (C)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

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31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root(A) below and bear fruit(B) above.
32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(C)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(D)
The zeal(E) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

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24 Then (A)the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

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24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur(A) on Sodom and Gomorrah(B)—from the Lord out of the heavens.(C)

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22 (A)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[a]
    (B)his mercies never come to an end;

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  1. Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off

22 Because of the Lord’s great love(A) we are not consumed,(B)
    for his compassions never fail.(C)

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(A)It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for (B)the remnant that is left.’”

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It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(A) the living God,(B) and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard.(C) Therefore pray(D) for the remnant(E) that still survives.”

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13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
    among the nations,
(A)as when an olive tree is beaten,
    as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

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13 So will it be on the earth
    and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,(A)
    or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.(B)

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if by (A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, (B)making them an example of (C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;[a]

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  1. 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(A) and made them an example(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(C)

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But what is God's reply to him? (A)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is (B)a remnant, chosen by grace. (C)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[a](A) So too, at the present time there is a remnant(B) chosen by grace.(C) And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works;(D) if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

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  1. Romans 11:4 1 Kings 19:18

27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved,

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  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,(A)
    only the remnant will be saved.(B)

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29 (A)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be (B)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

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29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.(A)

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14 For the gate is narrow and (A)the way is hard that leads to life, and (B)those who find it are few.

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14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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In the whole land, declares the Lord,
    two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
    (A)and one third shall be left alive.
And (B)I will put this third into the fire,
    and refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call upon my name,
    and (D)I will answer them.
(E)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

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In the whole land,” declares the Lord,
    “two-thirds will be struck down and perish;
    yet one-third will be left in it.(A)
This third I will put into the fire;(B)
    I will refine them like silver(C)
    and test them like gold.(D)
They will call(E) on my name(F)
    and I will answer(G) them;
I will say, ‘They are my people,’(H)
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.(I)’”

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