The First Epistle of Peter

I Peter 2 (NASB)
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast
them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a
preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of
the ungodly; 6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those
who would live ungodly lives thereafter; 7 and if He rescued
righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men 8
(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his
righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and
to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, 10
and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise
authority.

The Scripture quotations above are taken from the NEW
AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE�, Copyright � 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975,
1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. Used
by permission.


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