And when dawn had risen, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are found here, that you not be consumed in the punishment of the city.

And it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for your lives! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.

Behold now, your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

And he said to him, See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.

Their quiver is as an open grave; they are all mighty men.

And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

Therefore, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

Let no one beguile you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Therefore do not be partakers with them.

And I heard another voice from Heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you not share in her sins, and so that you not receive of her plagues.

Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces.

I will strike them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,

Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn against them, that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.

For Jehovah had said to Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people. I should come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.

How have they been brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are fully brought to an end with destruction,

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

For our God is a consuming fire.