Then the two men left and went on toward Sodom, but the LORD remained with Abraham.

Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the LORD is going to destroy this place." But they thought he was joking.

At dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. "Quick!" they said. "Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed."

Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you get there." Because Lot called it small, the town was named Zoar.

That same night Saul sent some men to watch David's house and kill him the next morning. Michal, David's wife, warned him, "If you don't get away tonight, tomorrow you will be dead."

Elijah was afraid and fled for his life; he took his servant and went to Beersheba in Judah. Leaving the servant there,

I look to the mountains; where will my help come from?

When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, "You snakes---who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

"Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills.

Someone who is in the field must not go back to get a cloak.

How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true.

But Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who starts to plow and then keeps looking back is of no use for the Kingdom of God."

"On that day someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.

Remember Lot's wife!

Of course, my friends, I really do not think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.

So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.