2 Peter 2:5-9 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood upon the godless world;

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood upon the godless world; ⁶ and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and overwhelmed them with ashes, as a warning to ungodly men of what was to come, ⁷ and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men— ⁸ for as long as that upright man lived among them, day after day his upright soul was tormented by what he saw and heard of their lawless actions— ⁹ then the Lord knows how to rescue God-fearing people from trial and to punish wrongdoers while they are being kept for the Day of Judgment,