Reference

Jude 1:7

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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

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Fire Imagery
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Eternal Result Language

The verse explicitly uses the phrase "eternal fire," which directly aligns with the theme's definition of using "eternal" to describe a permanent, irreversible result.

Fire Imagery

The verse explicitly states that Sodom and Gomorrah are "suffering the vengeance of eternal fire," which directly uses "fire" in a judgment context, making any argument against this tag difficult to sustain.

Punishment Language

There is no argument that this verse does not support the theme "Punishment Language" as it explicitly uses the word "vengeance" in reference to divine judgment.