2 Peter 2:5-9

JuliaSmith(i) 5 And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious; 6 And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously; 7 And just Lot, being harassed by the licentiousness of the lawless for the turning back, he delivered: 8 (For the just one in seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, from day to day tried the just soul with lawless works;) 9 The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment;