Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.
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