2 Peter 2:7

And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6And reducing the cities of the Sodomites, and of the Gomorrhites, into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly.

8For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling among them, who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:7no not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.

Genesis 19:22Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.

Psalms 120:5O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.

Jeremiah 23:9To the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones tremble: I am become as a drunken man, and as a man full of wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his holy words.

2 Peter 3:17You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you 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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