6. and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;
7. and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral
8. (for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard ) —
9. then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,