Matthew 10:15 KJV
Verily I say unto you,
It shall be more tolerable
for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha
in the day of judgment,
than for that city.
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New International Version
Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
New Living Translation
I tell you the truth, the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah will be better off than such a town on the judgment day.
English Standard Version
Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
Berean Study Bible
Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Berean Literal Bible
Truly I say to you, on the day of judgment, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and of Gomorrah than for that city.
New King James Version
Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!
New American Standard Bible
Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment, than for that city.
Amplified Bible
I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city [since it rejected the Messiah’s messenger].
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Parallel passage: Luke 10:12 (the seventy).
Similar words are used by our Lord in his apostrophe of Capernaum (Matthew 11:24).
The combination in Luke 10:11 and 12-15 of both the contexts is an instructive warning against accepting the present position of our Lord’s sayings as the final indication of the occasion upon which they were delivered.
Verily. (For the idea of acquiescence that always underlies this word – even in the case of so solemn a matter as the present – compare Matthew 5:18) I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha.
The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrha are generally known as the typical example of the worst of sinners (Deuteronomy 32:32; Isaiah 1:10; Ezekiel 16:46; Revelation 11:8).
“The men of Sodom have no part in the world to come”.
It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom
The cities here mentioned, together with Admah and Zeboim, were destroyed by fire and brimstone on account of their great wickedness.
They occupied the place afterward covered by the Dead Sea, bounding Palestine on the southeast, Genesis 19:24-25.
Christ said that their punishment will be more “tolerable”, that is, more easily borne, than that of the people who reject His gospel.
The reason is, that they were not favored with so much light and instruction. (See Matthew 11:23-24; Luke 12:47-48).
Sodom and Gomorrah are often referred to as signal instances of divine vengeance, and as sure proofs that the wicked shall not go unpunished (See 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7).
The thought implied in the previous verse is now expressly asserted.
The cities that stood out, in the history of the world, as most conspicuous for their infamy, were yet less guilty (as sinning less against light and knowledge) than those who rejected the messengers of the King.
The same comparison reappears with the addition of Tyre and Sidon in Matthew 11:21.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Those Cities of the Plain, which were given to the flames for their loathsome impurities, shall be treated as less criminal, than those who reject the Gospel.
We are here taught, than those places which, though morally respectable, reject the Gospel message and affront those that bear it.
In the day of judgment.
The phrase, like the Old Testament “day of the Lord,” is wider in its range than the thoughts we commonly connect with it, and includes the earlier and more earthly judgments, as well as that which is the great consummation of them all.
In the day of judgment; Luke has “in that day;” (cf, Matthew 7:22).
In the only two passages in the Septuagint (Proverbs 6:34; Isaiah 34:8) where, as it seems, our phrase occurs, it refers, not to the judgment of all, good and bad alike, but to that of the wicked alone.
So also in 2 Peter 2:9; 3:7; and possibly also in Matthew 12:36, but not in 1 John 4:17 (the only passage where it is not anarthrous).
Than for that city.
Observe that this verse implies that the wicked dead are still in existence, and are waiting for their final judgment; also that in the judgment of the wicked there will be degrees of punishment.
Greek
Truly ☆ ἀμὴν (amēn) ☆ Hebrew Word ☆ Of Hebrew origin; properly, firm, i.e. trustworthy; adverbially, surely.
I tell ☆ λέγω (legō) ☆ Verb – Present Indicative Active – 1st Person Singular ☆ (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.
You ☆ ὑμῖν (hymin) ☆ Personal / Possessive Pronoun – Dative 2nd Person Plural ☆ You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.
It will be ☆ ἔσται (estai) ☆ Verb – Future Indicative Middle – 3rd Person Singular ☆ I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.
More bearable ☆ἀνεκτότερον (anektoteron) ☆ Adjective – Nominative Neuter Singular – Comparative ☆ Endurable, tolerable. Comparative of a derivative of anechomai; more endurable.
For Sodom ☆ Σοδόμων (Sodomōn) ☆ Noun – Genitive Neuter Plural ☆ Sodom. Plural of Hebrew origin; Sodoma, a place in Palestine.
And ☆ καὶ (kai) ☆ Conjunction ☆ And, even, also, namely.
Gomorrah ☆ Γομόρρων (Gomorrōn) ☆ Noun – Genitive Neuter Plural ☆ Gomorrah, one of the destroyed cities on the Dead Sea. Of Hebrew origin; Gomorrha, a place near the Dead Sea.
On ☆ ἐν (en) ☆ Preposition ☆ In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; ‘in, ‘ at, on, by, etc.
[the] day ☆ ἡμέρᾳ (hēmera) ☆ Noun – Dative Feminine Singular ☆ A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.
Of judgment ☆ κρίσεως (kriseōs) ☆ Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular ☆ Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice.
Than ☆ ἢ (ē) ☆ Conjunction ☆ Or, than. A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than.
For that ☆ ἐκείνῃ (ekeinē) ☆ Demonstrative Pronoun – Dative Feminine Singular ☆
That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.
Town ☆ πόλει (polei) ☆ Noun – Dative Feminine Singular ☆ A city, the inhabitants of a city. Probably from the same as polemos, or perhaps from polus; a town
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