and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed them as an example for those who are going to be ungodly, and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness (for that righteous man, as he[a] lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing),

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:8 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lived”) which is understood as temporal

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(A) and made them an example(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(C) and if he rescued Lot,(D) a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless(E) (for that righteous man,(F) living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

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