Genesis
13:13 - But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis
18:20 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and
because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis
19:1-29 - And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of
Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward
the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's
house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your
ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon
them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But 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: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men
which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot
went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you,
brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man;
let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes:
only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And
they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he
will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed
sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their
hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men
that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they
wearied themselves to find the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any
besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the
city, bring them out of this place: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of
them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said,
Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one
that mocked unto his sons in law. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened
Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be
consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his
hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD
being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it
came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life;
look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest
thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant
hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed
unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me,
and I die: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh,
let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto
him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this
city, for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any
thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun
was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and
upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those
cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And
Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: And he
looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and,
lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, when
God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of
the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Leviticus
18:22-23 - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman
stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Leviticus
20:13 - If 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.
Deuteronomy
23:17-18 - There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of
the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into
the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the
LORD thy God.
1 Kings
14:22-24 - And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to
jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and
under every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according
to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of
Israel.
Isaiah
3:9 - The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil
unto themselves.
Luke
17:25-32 - But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this
generation. And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son
of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until
the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day
when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his
stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field,
let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife.
Hector Mata –
AFP/Getty Images, Washington Post 2/21/04
Romans
1:24-32 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their
own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God
into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed
for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with
men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their
error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being
filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without
understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who
knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
1
Corinthians 6:9 - Know 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.
1
Timothy 1:9-10 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane,
for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for
them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured
persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.
2
Peter 2:6-9 - And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned
them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that
righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from
day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Jude
1:7-8 - Even 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. Likewise also these filthy dreamers
defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jeff Chiu – AP, Washington Post 2/21/04
"If 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." (Leviticus 20:13)