2 Peter 2:7

and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

In Context

6and he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, being reduced to ashes, having made an example of men who were going to be irreverent,

8(for that righteous man dwelling among them day after day, in the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, it anguished his righteous soul),

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Cross References

Genesis 19:7And he said, I pray you, my brothers, do not so wickedly.

Genesis 19:22Hasten thee, escape there, for I cannot do anything till thou have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Jeremiah 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of LORD, and because of his holy words.

2 Peter 3:17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:2-7

False Prophets and Corrupt Leaders. ( a. d. 67.) 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you— I. In the end of the former chapter there is… Read the whole commentary →

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