2 Peter 2:5-9 ▼

5 and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

6 and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;

7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral

8 (for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,