Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Many times in the Pentateuch and Prophets, writers use God's destruction of Sodom to demonstrate His awesome power.

This happens in Deuteronomy 29; Isaiah 1, 3, and 13; Jeremiah 49 and 50; Lamentations 4; Amos 4.11; and Zephaniah 2.9.

In those languages, the term is also often current vernacular (not just legal, unlike in other cultures) and a formal way of referring to any practice of anal penetration; the word sex is commonly associated with consent and pleasure with regard to all involved parties and often avoids directly mentioning two common aspects of social taboo—human sexuality and the anus—without a shunning or archaic connotation to its use.

Sod is used as slang in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and is considered mildly offensive.

As one word it is not used elsewhere in the New Testament, but occurs in the Septuagint to denote whoredom (Genesis and Exodus ).

Some modern translations as the NIV render it as "sexual immorality".

Genesis (chapters 18–20) tells how God wished to destroy the "sinful" cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Two angels are invited by Lot to take refuge with his family for the night.