"Finally Home"
Genesis 6 (NASB)
1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.3 Then the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.7 The LORD said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.12 God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.13 Then God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.16 You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.17 Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons wives with you.19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.21 As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
Genesis 19 (NASB)
1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.2 And he said, Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servants house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way. They said however, No, but we shall spend the night in the square.3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.4 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;5 and they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,7 and said, Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.8 Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.9 But they said, Stand aside. Furthermore, they said, This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them. So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.11 They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.12 Then the two men said to Lot, Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;13 for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city. But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.16 But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.17 When they had brought them outside, one said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.18 But Lot said to them, Oh no, my lords!19 Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved.21 He said to him, Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.26 But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.30 Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.37 The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.38 As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
Luke 17 (NASB)
1 He said to His disciples, It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.3 Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.4 And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, I repent, forgive him.5 The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith!6 And the Lord said, If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.7 Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, Come immediately and sit down to eat?8 But will he not say to him, Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink?9 He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?10 So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.11 While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.12 As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him;13 and they raised their voices, saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!14 When He saw them, He said to them, Go and show yourselves to the priests. And as they were going, they were cleansed.15 Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,16 and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan.17 Then Jesus answered and said, Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine--where are they?18 Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?19 And He said to him, Stand up and go; your faith has made you well.20 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;21 nor will they say, Look, here it is! or, There it is! For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.22 And He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.23 They will say to you, Look there! Look here! Do not go away, and do not run after them.24 For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.26 And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.28 It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.30 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.31 On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.32 Remember Lots wife.33 Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.35 There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.36 [Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.]37 And answering they said to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.
1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.3 Then the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.7 The LORD said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.12 God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.13 Then God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.16 You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.17 Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons wives with you.19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.21 As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
Genesis 19 (NASB)
1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.2 And he said, Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servants house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way. They said however, No, but we shall spend the night in the square.3 Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.4 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;5 and they called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,7 and said, Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.8 Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.9 But they said, Stand aside. Furthermore, they said, This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them. So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.11 They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.12 Then the two men said to Lot, Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;13 for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city. But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.16 But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.17 When they had brought them outside, one said, Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the valley; escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away.18 But Lot said to them, Oh no, my lords!19 Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;20 now behold, this town is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) that my life may be saved.21 He said to him, Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.22 Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,25 and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.26 But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.27 Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD;28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.29 Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.30 Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters.31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.37 The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.38 As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
Luke 17 (NASB)
1 He said to His disciples, It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.3 Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.4 And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, I repent, forgive him.5 The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith!6 And the Lord said, If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.7 Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, Come immediately and sit down to eat?8 But will he not say to him, Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink?9 He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?10 So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.11 While He was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.12 As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him;13 and they raised their voices, saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!14 When He saw them, He said to them, Go and show yourselves to the priests. And as they were going, they were cleansed.15 Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,16 and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan.17 Then Jesus answered and said, Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine--where are they?18 Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?19 And He said to him, Stand up and go; your faith has made you well.20 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;21 nor will they say, Look, here it is! or, There it is! For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.22 And He said to the disciples, The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.23 They will say to you, Look there! Look here! Do not go away, and do not run after them.24 For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.26 And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.28 It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.30 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.31 On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.32 Remember Lots wife.33 Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.34 I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.35 There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.36 [Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.]37 And answering they said to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.