2 Peter 2:7
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
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:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
- KJV
- And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
- WEB
- and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
- ASV
- and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked
- DARBY
- and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,
- BLB
- and He delivered righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct in sensuality of the lawless
- ÅB
- og han frelste den rettferdige Lot, som ble plaget av de ugudeliges skamløse liv,
- OTB
- og hvis Han reddet den rettferdige Lot, som var plaget av de umoralske handlingene til skruppelløse mennesker
- B1930
- og fridde ut den rettferdige Lot, som plagedes ved de ugudeliges skamløse ferd
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 19:16
And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Read in contextGenesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Read in contextGenesis 19:7–8
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Read in contextGenesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Read in contextGenesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:9
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:1–6
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath 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 ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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