Isaiah 1:9
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9 (A)Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like (B)Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Romans 9:29
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29 And as Isaiah said before:
(A)“Unless the Lord of [a]Sabaoth had left us a seed,
(B)We would have become like Sodom,
And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”
Footnotes
- Romans 9:29 Lit., in Heb., Hosts
Isaiah 37:31-32
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31 And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah
Shall again take root downward,
And bear fruit upward.
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant,
And those who escape from Mount Zion.
The (A)zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Genesis 19:24
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24 Then the Lord rained (A)brimstone and (B)fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
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Lamentations 3:22
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Romans 11:4-6
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4 But what does the divine response say to him? (A)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 (B)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And (C)if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. [a]But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
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- Romans 11:6 NU omits the rest of v. 6.
Amos 4:11
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11 “I overthrew some of you,
As God overthrew (A)Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
Isaiah 37:4
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4 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 (A)reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”
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Isaiah 24:13
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13 When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people,
(A)It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.
Isaiah 17:6
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6 (A)Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”
Says the Lord God of Israel.
Isaiah 10:20-22
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The Returning Remnant of Israel
20 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the remnant of Israel,
And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob,
(A)Will never again depend on him who [a]defeated them,
But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob,
To the (B)Mighty God.
22 (C)For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,
(D)A remnant of them will return;
The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 10:20 Lit. struck
Isaiah 6:13
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13 But yet a tenth will be in it,
And will return and be for consuming,
As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So (A)the holy seed shall be its stump.”
Genesis 18:32
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32 Then he said, (A)“Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but once more: Suppose ten should be found there?”
(B)And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.”
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Romans 9:27
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27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
(A)“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
(B)The remnant will be saved.
Luke 17:29-30
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29 but on (A)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man (B)is revealed.
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Matthew 7:14
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14 [a]Because narrow is the gate and [b]difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
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- Matthew 7:14 NU, M How narrow . . . !
- Matthew 7:14 confined
Zechariah 13:8-9
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8 And it shall come to pass in all the land,”
Says the Lord,
“That (A)two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die,
(B)But one-third shall be left in it:
9 I will bring the one-third (C)through the fire,
Will (D)refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
(E)They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
(F)I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
Zephaniah 2:9
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9 Therefore, as I live,”
Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely (A)Moab shall be like Sodom,
And (B)the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
(C)Overrun[a] with weeds and saltpits,
And a [b]perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:9 Lit. Possessed by nettles
- Zephaniah 2:9 Or permanent ruin
Habakkuk 3:2
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2 O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.
Ezekiel 6:8
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8 (A)“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are (B)scattered through the countries.
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Lamentations 4:6
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6 The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the (A)sin of Sodom,
Which was (B)overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!
1 Kings 19:18
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18 (A)Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, (B)and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
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Deuteronomy 29:23
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23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, (A)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, (B)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’
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2 Peter 2:6
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6 and turning the cities of (A)Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
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