and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
Parallel translations
- KJV And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
- BSB and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
- NKJV and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
- NASB and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people
- NLT But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him.
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Quick answer
In the midst of judgment God rescued righteous Lot, who was deeply distressed by the wicked conduct around him. It matters because God knows how to deliver the godly even from a corrupt society.
Overview
Lot is presented as a righteous man oppressed by the filthy lives of Sodom's people. Though Genesis shows Lot's weaknesses, Peter highlights that he was counted righteous by faith and troubled by sin. His deliverance illustrates God's care for his own amid surrounding evil.
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- Gen 19:16But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
- Gen 19:29When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Gen 19:7–8He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- Gen 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Gen 19:22Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- 2 Pet 3:17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
- Jer 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
- Jer 9:1–6Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- Ps 120:5Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
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