2 Peter 2:9
the LORD has known to rescue [the] pious out of temptation, and to keep [the] unrighteous being punished to [the] day of judgment,
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Job 5:19In six distresses He delivers you, || And in seven evil does not strike on you.
Psalms 4:3And know that YHWH || Has separated a saintly one to Himself. YHWH hears in my calling to Him.
Psalms 32:6For every saintly one prays this to You, || In the time to find [You]. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, || They do not come to him.
Proverbs 16:4YHWH has worked all things for Himself, || And also the wicked—for a day of evil.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you—except that of man; and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted above what you are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear [it].
2 Timothy 3:12And all who will to live piously in Christ Jesus will also be persecuted,
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 →