Isaiah 1:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 If the Lord of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.(A)
Romans 9:29
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 And as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of hosts had not left descendants to us,
we would have fared like Sodom
and been made like Gomorrah.”(A)
Isaiah 37:31-32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,(A) 32 for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.(B)
Read full chapter
Lamentations 3:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Footnotes
- 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off
Genesis 19:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven,(A)
Read full chapter
Romans 11:4-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”(A) 5 So, too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.[a](B)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 11.6 Other ancient authorities add But if it is by works, it is no longer on the basis of grace, otherwise work would no longer be work
Amos 4:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 I overthrew some of you
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
Isaiah 37:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 It may be that the Lord your God heard 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 the remnant that is left.”(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 24:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 For thus it shall be on the earth
and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is ended.(A)
Genesis 18:32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
32 Then he said, “Oh, do not let my lord be angry if I speak just once more. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”(A)
Read full chapter
Romans 9:27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,(A)
Read full chapter
Luke 17:29-30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them; 30 it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
Read full chapter
Matthew 7:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Read full chapter
Zechariah 13:8-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 In the whole land, says the Lord,
two-thirds shall be cut off and perish,
and one-third shall be left alive.(A)
9 And I will put this third into the fire,
refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(B)
Zephaniah 2:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel,
Moab shall become like Sodom
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits
and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.(A)
Habakkuk 3:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Prophet’s Prayer
2 O Lord, I have heard of your renown,
and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work.
In our own time revive it;
in our own time make it known;
in wrath may you remember mercy.(A)
Joel 2:32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
32 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 6:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 But I will spare some. Some of you shall escape the sword among the nations and be scattered through the countries.(A)
Read full chapter
Lamentations 4:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 For the chastisement of my people has been greater
than the punishment of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
though no hand was laid on it.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 4.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 17:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
says the Lord God of Israel.(A)
Isaiah 10:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Repentant Remnant of Israel
20 On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.(A) 21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.(B) 22 For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, an overwhelming verdict.(C)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 6:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Even if a tenth part remain in it,
it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
whose stump remains standing
when it is felled.”[a]
(The holy seed is its stump.)(A)
Footnotes
- 6.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Kings 19:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”(A)
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 29:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger(A)—
Read full chapter
Genesis 18:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.