7 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.
(Bold added).
Those six words teach us a valuable lesson. The scriptures are here to show us an example of what not to do, and give us the commandments of what we need to do. Why then do the prophets throughout all time continued to beg us to listen, as well as read the scriptures? Countless times, and probably more often than they should have to. So let us take a lesson from the Book of Mormon:
23 And I did read many things unto them which were written in the books of Moses; but that I might more fully persuade them to believe in the Lord their Redeemer I did read unto them that which was written by the prophet Isaiah; for I did liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning.
So the next time you read think, "what if I did this?" And after putting yourself in their shoes imagine the consequences whether good or bad. It may bring a different perspective to our understanding of the lesson contained those pages.
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