2 Peter 2:5-9 ▼

5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, together with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the godless world;

6 and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [to destruction], reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless [people] of what is coming;

7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man oppressed by the licentious conduct of unprincipled people

8 (for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,