Bible Cross References
Remember Lot's wife.
Genesis 19:17
Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."
Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
1 Corinthians 10:6-12
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Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,
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nor to worship idols, as some of them did. As the scripture says, "The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex."
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We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were---and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
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We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did---and they were killed by snakes.
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We must not complain, as some of them did---and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.
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All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.
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If you think you are standing firm you had better be careful that you do not fall.
Hebrews 10:38
My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."
Hebrews 10:39
We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.
2 Peter 2:18-22
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They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.
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They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits---for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.
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If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
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It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.
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What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."