2 Peter 2:4-10 NAS
For if God did not spare
angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to
pits of darkness, reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient
world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others,
when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He
condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them
to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives
thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by sensual conduct
of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and headed that righteous
man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day
after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how
to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under
punishment for the day of judgment, especially those who indulge the flesh
in its corrupt desires and despise authority.
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