He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
Parallel translations
- KJV And said, I pray you, brethren, do not 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
Cross-references · 10
- Rom 1:24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
- Lev 20:13“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Judg 19:23The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.
- Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- Lev 18:22“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
- Gen 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- 1 Sam 30:23–24Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
- Acts 17:26He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
- Deut 23:17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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