^{5 Ref} and didn't 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 Ref} and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

^{7 Ref} and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

^{8 Ref} (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

^{9 Ref} the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;