and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness (for that righteous man, as he[a] lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at[b] the day of judgment,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:8 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lived”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 2 Peter 2:9 Or “until”