2 Peter 2:7

American Standard Version (1901)

and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 19:16 : 16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
  • Gen 19:29 : 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
  • Gen 19:7-8 : 7 And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
  • Gen 19:22 : 22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
  • Jer 9:1-6 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
  • Jer 23:9 : 9 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.
  • 2 Pet 3:17 : 17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.
  • Ps 120:5 : 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Pet 2:8-9
    2 verses
    87%

    8(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds):

    9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

  • 2 Pet 2:4-6
    3 verses
    80%

    4For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

    5and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

    6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

  • Luke 17:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

    29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:

  • Jude 1:7
    74%

    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  • Gen 19:4-18
    15 verses
    74%

    4But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

    5and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

    6And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.

    7And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

    8Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.

    9And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.

    10But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

    11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

    12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of the place:

    13for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

    14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

    15And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

    16But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

    17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

    18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord:

  • Gen 19:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

    29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

  • Gen 13:10-13
    4 verses
    73%

    10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.

    11So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

    12Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

    13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.

  • Gen 19:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;

    2and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

  • Gen 18:20
    70%

    20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

  • Gen 19:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.

    24Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

  • Gen 14:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.

    11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

    12And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Gen 18:23-26
    4 verses
    70%

    23And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

    24Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

    25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

    26And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

  • Prov 2:12
    68%

    12To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

  • Jude 1:15
    67%

    15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

  • Luke 17:32
    67%

    32Remember Lot's wife.