Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked: Should be a warning to others

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korach when that group died, and the fire consumed 250 men, and they became a warning sign.

Now these things took place as prefigurative historical events, warning us not to set our hearts on evil things as they did.

Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were — as the Tanakh puts it, “The people sat down to eat and drink, then got up to indulge in revelry.”

And let us not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, with the consequence that 23,000 died in a single day.

And let us not put the Messiah to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

And don’t grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

These things happened to them as prefigurative historical events, and they were written down as a warning to us who are living in the acharit-hayamim.

And S’dom, ‘Amora and the surrounding cities, following a pattern like theirs, committing sexual sins and perversions, lie exposed as a warning of the everlasting fire awaiting those who must undergo punishment.