2 Peter 2:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

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  • Ps 119:158 : 158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
  • Prov 25:26 : 26 Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
  • Mal 3:15-17 : 15 And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe. 16 Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name. 17 And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
  • 1 Tim 1:9 : 9 With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.
  • Prov 28:12 : 12 When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

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    4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

    5 And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

    6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

    7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

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    9 The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

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    20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

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    15 To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

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    23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

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    7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

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    12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

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    29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

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    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

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    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

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    5 Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;

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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

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    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

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    16 And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.