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But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people. This good man lived with those evil people every day, and his good heart was hurt by the evil things he saw and heard.

So you see that the Lord God knows how to save those who are devoted to him. He will save them when troubles come. And the Lord will hold evil people to punish them on the day of judgment.

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and if he rescued Lot,(A) a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless(B) (for that righteous man,(C) living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials(D) and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.(E)

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