Luke 17 · Verse 32

Luke 17:32

Remember Lot’s wife.
Luke 17:32, King James Version

Luke 17:32 in other translations

BSBRemember Lot’s wife!
WEBRemember Lot’s wife!
ASVRemember Lot’s wife.
YLTremember the wife of Lot.
DARBYRemember the wife of Lot.
BBEKeep in mind Lot's wife.
WebsterRemember Lot's wife.

What does Luke 17:32 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 17:31-33

31-33. to take it away ... Remember, &c.--a warning against that lingering reluctance to part with present treasures which induces some to remain in a burning house, in hopes of saving this and that precious article till consumed and buried in its ruins. The cases here supposed, though different, are similar.

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 32. Remember Lot's wife. Gen 19:26. She looked back--she delayed --perhaps she desired to take something with her, and God made her a monument of his displeasure. Jesus directed his disciples, when they saw the calamities coming upon the Jews, to flee to the mountains, Mt 24:16. He here charges them to be in haste--not to look back--no!; to delay--but to escape quickly, and to remember that by delaying, the wife of Lot lost her life.

(w) Gen 19:26

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 32 Remember Lot's wife - Relinquish every thing, rather than lose your souls. She looked back, Gen 19:26; probably she turned back also to carry some of her goods away - for so much the preceding verse seems to intimate, and became a monument of the Divine displeasure, and of her own folly and sin. It is a proof that we have loved with a criminal affection that which we leave with grief and anxiety, though commanded by the Lord to abandon it.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 17:20-37

The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is…

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Luke 17:32 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

μνημονεύετεmnēmoneuetedo rememberG3421
τῆςtēstheG3588
γυναικὸςgunaikoswifeG1135
Λώτ.Lōtof Lot!G3091

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Cross references for Luke 17:32

  • Hebrews 10:38-39

    Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

  • Genesis 19:26

    But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

  • 2 Peter 2:18-22

    For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. …

  • 1 Corinthians 10:6-12

    Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. …

  • Genesis 19:17

    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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ge 19:17,26; 1Co 10:6-12; Heb 10:38,39; 2Pe 2:18-22

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Context

  • Luke 17:31

    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.

  • Luke 17:32

    Remember Lot’s wife.

  • Luke 17:33

    Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

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Luke 17:32 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Acordaos de la mujer de Lot.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Souvenez-vous de la femme de Lot.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Gedenket an Lots Weib!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Memores estote uxoris Lot.