⁷ just as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah and ^(B)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ^(C)pursued unnatural desire,^[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

²³ the whole land burned out with brimstone and ^(A)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, ^(B)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ^(C)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—

⁶ 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]

²⁶ For this reason ^(A)God gave them up to ^(B)dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; ²⁷ and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, ^(C)men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

^29 (A)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

^40 (A)As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, ^(B)so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

²⁴ Then ^(A)the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. ²⁶ But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became ^(B)a pillar of salt.

²⁰ Then the Lord said, “Because ^(A)the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,

¹³ Now the men of Sodom ^(A)were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous^[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: ^(A)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,^[b]