V. 31-33. And he said, Behold, now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake, And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. And the Lord went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham : and Abraham returned unto his place.

Chap. xix. 1-3. And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing, rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night: and he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did

eat.

v. 4, 5. But before they lay down . . the men of Sodom compassed the house

Luke xviii. 1-7. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man : and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

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round, . . . . and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

v. 9, 10. And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: Now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, Lot, and came near to break the door, but the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

V. II. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

v. 12,13. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? . . . bring them out of this place, for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

v. 14. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

v. 15, 16. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise; take thy wife and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth and set him without the city.

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of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.

2 Tim. iii. 11—13..... What persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.

Acts xiii. 11. And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

2 Peter ii. 9, 10. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness.

Luke xvii. 28. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded.

2 Peter ii. 7. And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.

Heb. i. 14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.

GENESIS XIX. v. 17. And it came when to pass, they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

v. 18-21. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord: . . . I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: oh, let me escape thither, . . . and soul shall live. my And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

7. 23-25. The sun was risen upon the earth when the Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

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Luke ix. 62. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Matt. xxiv. 16. Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.

1 John v. 15. And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Luke xxi. 36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke xvii. 29. The same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

2 Peter ii. 6. Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.

Jude 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in the like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Luke xvii. 32. Remember Lot's wife.

Heb. ii. 2. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?

Rev. xviii. 5-8. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. . . . Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

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v. 29. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Chap. xxi. 1. And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

v. 2, For Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

v. 3, And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac; and Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

v. 6, 7. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me, and she said, Who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

7. 8. And Abraham made a great feast the day that Isaac was weaned; and Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

V. 10. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

V. 12. And God said unto Abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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James v. 16. . . . The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Gal. iv. 23. He who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.

Heb. xi. 11. Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

Acts vii. 8. And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day.

Luke i. 57. Now Elizabeth

brought forth a son, and her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child.

Gal. iv. 29. But as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now.

v. 30, 31. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman: So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Rom. ix. 7. Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children but, in Isaac shall thy seed be called That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.