NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

2 Peter 2:5

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and 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,

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2 Peter 2:2–8

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Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

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

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For 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;

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and 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,

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

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(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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