Remember Lot’s wife!
Parallel translations
- KJV Remember Lot’s wife.
- BSB Remember Lot’s wife!
- ESV Remember Lot’s wife.
- NKJV Remember Lot’s wife.
- NASB Remember Lot’s wife.
- NLT Remember what happened to Lot’s wife!
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Quick answer
Jesus says simply, 'Remember Lot's wife,' who looked back and perished. A backward-clinging heart is fatal.
Overview
Lot's wife (Genesis 19:26) was delivered out of Sodom yet turned back in longing and was lost. Her example warns disciples not to cling to the world they are being called out of. In two words Jesus presses the danger of a heart still attached to what God is judging.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Gen 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
- Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
- 2 Pet 2:18–22For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
- 1 Cor 10:6–12Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Gen 19:17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
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