2 Peter 2:5-9 ▼

5 and if he spared not the old world, but brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, and saved Noah, the eighth person, who was a preacher of righteousness;

6 and if, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live in an ungodly manner,

7 and delivered righteous Lot, wearied out with the licentious conduct of the lawless,?

8 for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:

9 then , the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the ungodly for the day of judgment, to be punished;