2 Peter 2:7

and He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the indecent conduct of lawless men

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, He condemned them to destruction, having made them an example who were to be ungodly,

8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, tormented his righteous soul by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—

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Cross References

2 Peter 3:17You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on guard, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being carried away by the error of the wicked;

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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