And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Parallel translations
- WEB He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- BSB “Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
- 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
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- Rom 1:24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- Lev 20:13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Judg 19:23And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
- Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- 1 Cor 6:9–11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Lev 18:22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- Gen 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
- 1 Sam 30:23–24Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
- Acts 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
- Deut 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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