2 Peter 2:5-9 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah the eighth, a herald of righteousness, bringing a flood on a world of ungodly ones;

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah the eighth, a herald of righteousness, bringing a flood on a world of ungodly ones; ⁶ and covering the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with ashes, He condemned them with an overthrow, setting an example to men intending to live ungodly. ⁷ And He delivered righteous Lot, who had been oppressed by the behavior of the lawless in lustfulness. ⁸ For that righteous one living among them day after day, in seeing and in hearing, his righteous soul was tormented with their lawless deeds. ⁹ But the Lord knows to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unjust for a day of judgment, being punished,