2 Peter 2:5-9 ▼

5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on a world of the ungodly;

6 and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;

7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the lawless

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

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