2 Peter 2:7

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life 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 turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,

8(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),

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Cross References

Genesis 19:7He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.

Genesis 19:22Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Jeremiah 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of his holy words.

2 Peter 3:17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with 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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