(A)If the Lord of armies
Had not left us a few (B)survivors,
We would be like (C)Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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15 Truly I say to you, (A)it will be more tolerable for the land of (B)Sodom and Gomorrah on (C)the day of judgment, than for that city.

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15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah(A) on the day of judgment(B) than for that town.(C)

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23 And you, (A)Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be (B)brought down to (C)Hades! For if the [a]miracles that occurred in you had occurred in (D)Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

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  1. Matthew 11:23 Or works of power

23 And you, Capernaum,(A) will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.[a](B) For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

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  1. Matthew 11:23 That is, the realm of the dead

29 And just as Isaiah foretold:

(A)If (B)the Lord [a]of armies had not left us [b](C)descendants,
(D)We would have become like Sodom, and would have [c]been like Gomorrah.”

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  1. Romans 9:29 Gr sabaoth, for Heb tsebaoth (armies)
  2. Romans 9:29 Lit seed
  3. Romans 9:29 Lit been made like

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(A)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[a](B)

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  1. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9

just as (A)Sodom and Gomorrah and the (B)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and (C)went after [a]strange flesh, are exhibited as an [b](D)example in undergoing the (E)punishment of eternal fire.

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  1. Jude 1:7 Lit different; or other flesh
  2. Jude 1:7 Or example of eternal fire, in undergoing punishment

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah(A) and the surrounding towns(B) gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.(C)

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