2 Peter 2:6

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and 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;

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3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

4For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

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;

7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

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

9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

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