Gibeah’s Crime

²² As they were ^(A)enjoying themselves, suddenly ^(B)certain men of the city, ^(C)perverted^[a] men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, ^(D)“Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!”

⁴ Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. ^5 (A)And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? ^(B)Bring them out to us that we ^(C)may know them carnally.”

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. ^(A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor ^[a]homosexuals, nor ^[b]sodomites,

^5 (A)And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me, ^(B)but instead they ravished my concubine so that she died.

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to ^(A)vile passions. For even their ^[a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. ²⁷ Likewise also the ^[b]men, leaving the natural use of the ^[c]woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

^13 [a]‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ’—which you have not known—

⁷ as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ^[a]vengeance of eternal fire.

¹⁵ And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?

²⁵ Please, let not my lord ^[a]regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: ^[b]Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.