1 Corinthians 10:6

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;