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2 Peter 2:7 KJV
2 Peter · chapter 2 · verse 7
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:2 Peter 2:7 · King James Version
2 Peter 2:7 in context
5And 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;
6And 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;
7And 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;)
9The Lord knoweth 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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- conversationanastrophēmanner of life, conduct, behaviour, deportmentG391 →
- deliveredrhyomaito draw to one's self, to rescue, to deliver, the delivererG4506 →
- filthyaselgeiaunbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness…G766 →
- vexedkataponeōto tire down with toil, exhaust with labour, to afflict or oppress with evils, to make…G2669 →
- justdikaiosrighteous, observing divine laws, in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping…G1342 →
- LotlōtLot = " veil or covering" , the son of Haran and nephew to AbrahamG3091 →
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When God sends destruction on the ungodly, he commands deliverance for the righteous; and, if he rain fire and brimstone on the wicked, he will cover the head of the just, and they shall be hid in the day of his anger. This we have an instance of in his preserving Lot. Here observe, 1. The character given of Lot;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-9