2 Peter 2:7

and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6and having reduced [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned [them] with an overthrow, setting [them as] an example to those that should [afterwards] live an ungodly life;

8(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented [his] righteous soul day after day with [their] lawless works,)

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Cross References

Genesis 19:7and said, I pray you, my brethren, do not wickedly!

Genesis 19:22Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is 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 hath overcome; because of Jehovah, and because of the words of his holiness.

2 Peter 3:17*Ye* therefore, beloved, knowing [these] things before, take care lest, being led away along with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness:

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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