2 Peter 2:5-9 and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ and did not spare the ancient world but preserved Noah, with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, ⁶ and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes (providing a warning to those who are intent on being ungodly), ⁷ while He rescued upright Lot, who was distressed by the licentious lifestyle of the wicked ⁸ (for that upright man, dwelling among them, tormented an upright soul from day to day by seeing and hearing lawless deeds) ⁹ —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,