and if He (A)rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the (B)perverted conduct of [a](C)unscrupulous people (for by what he saw and heard that (D)righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), (E)then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from [b]a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the (F)day of judgment,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:7 Or disgraceful
  2. 2 Peter 2:9 Or temptation; one early ms trials (temptations)

and if he rescued Lot,(A) a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless(B) (for that righteous man,(C) living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials(D) and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.(E)

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