2 Peter 2:7

while He rescued upright Lot, who was distressed by the licentious lifestyle of the wicked

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

6and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly),

8(for that upright man, dwelling among them, tormented an upright soul from day to day by seeing and hearing lawless deeds)

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Cross References

2 Peter 3:17You therefore, dear ones, being forewarned, be on guard lest, being carried away by the error of the wicked, 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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