2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
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Job 5:19He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
Psalms 4:3But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
Psalms 32:6For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Proverbs 16:4The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
1 Corinthians 10:13There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that all of you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that all of you may be able to bear it.
2 Timothy 3:12Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
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 →