“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
Parallel translations
- WEB He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- KJV And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- NKJV and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!
- NASB and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
- NLT “Please, my brothers,” he begged, “don’t do such a wicked thing.
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Quick answer
Lot pleads with the men not to commit such wickedness.
Overview
He appeals to their conscience, calling their intended act wicked. Addressing them as 'brothers,' he tries to restrain evil through entreaty. His words name the moral truth that the mob has utterly abandoned.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Rom 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
- Lev 20:13If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- Judg 19:23The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- 1 Cor 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Lev 18:22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
- Gen 19:4Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
- 1 Sam 30:23–24But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.
- Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
- Deut 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
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