2 Peter 2:8
For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling among them, who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.
Cross References
Proverbs 25:26A just man falling down before the wicked, is as a fountain troubled with the foot, and a corrupted spring.
Ezekiel 9:4And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.
Malachi 3:15Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.
James 5:16Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:8-10
Divine Judgments. ( a. d. 67.) 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: When God sends destruction on the ungodly, he commands deliverance for the righteous; and, if he rain fire and brimstone on the wicked, he… Read the whole commentary →