2 Peter 2:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

And delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked:

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  • Gen 19:16 : 16 And while he lingered, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside 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 middle of the upheaval, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able; but with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
  • Gen 19:7-8 : 7 And said, I pray you, brothers, do not do so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me, I pray you, bring them to you, and do to them as seems good in your eyes: only do nothing to these men; for they have come under the shadow of my roof.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Gen 19:22 : 22 Hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
  • Jer 9:1-6 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and my 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 for travelers; 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 tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD. 4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk 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, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 23:9 : 9 My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
  • 2 Pet 3:17 : 17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
  • Ps 120:5 : 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

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  • 2 Pet 2:8-9
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    8 For that righteous man, dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds.

    9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;

  • 2 Pet 2:4-6
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    4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

    5 And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

    6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

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    28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

    29 But on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

  • 7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

  • Gen 19:4-18
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    4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

    5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

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

    7 And said, I pray you, brothers, do not do so wickedly.

    8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me, I pray you, bring them to you, and do to them as seems good in your eyes: only do nothing to these men; for they have come under the shadow of my roof.

    9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one came here to stay, and he will act as a judge: now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard against Lot, and came near to break the door.

    10 But the men reached out their hands, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

    11 And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they tired themselves trying to find the door.

    12 And the men said to Lot, Do you have anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and anyone you have in the city, bring them out of this place.

    13 For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.

    14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one who mocked.

    15 And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

    16 And while he lingered, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

    17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them out, that he said, Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.

    18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord.

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

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

  • Gen 13:10-13
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    10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.

    11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated from each other.

    12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

  • Gen 19:1-2
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    1 And two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the ground.

    2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise early and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will stay in the street all night.

  • 20 And the LORD said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grievous,

  • Gen 19:23-24
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    23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

    24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.

  • Gen 14:10-12
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    10 And the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there; and those who remained fled to the mountain.

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

    12 And they took Lot, Abram's nephew, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Gen 18:23-26
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    23 And Abraham drew near and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

    24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are within it?

    25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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

  • 12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks perverse things;

  • 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.'

  • 32 Remember Lot's wife.